The sensational Cuvée William Deutz 2008
07 January 2021

Having sold through our initial allocation in a little over a week, we’re delighted to be able to offer a further parcel (at opening price) of the flagship cuvee from the wonderful house of Deutz. We’ve long admired the Deutz Champagnes for their classical and crisp sense of proportion and clarity. In this 2008 release of the maison’s iconic Cuvée William Deutz we found shades of Roederer’s immense Cristal 2008 – long, brilliant citrus and stone flavours of cut-glass precision and great intensity. With all the keen acidity you’d hope to find in a top bottle from this clearly very special vintage this looks set to go down as one of the great Cuvée Williams. “The finest vintages of William Deutz display profound contrasts and contradictions, juxtaposing the exacting precision of the house with the intensity of pinot noir, and it is in the most energetic vintages that this accord finds its most alluring expression. No season exemplifies this more magnificently than 2008.    Read More

It is built around depth and breadth, charged with an incredible display of the freshness of Deutz, and elevated and energised by ultra-fine, chalk-rich minerality that attains new heights of expression in this profound season. For all of its contrasts, it crucially maintains seamless persistence of breathtaking lightness. Youthful endurance is declared in vibrant lemon zest and young summer-fruit freshness, quietly touched with depth of brioche, ginger, vanilla nougat and toast. A prominent, mouth-enveloping, silky cloud of chalk dust is the grand highlight of a mesmerising finish, riding a laser-line of acidity of the utmost elegance… One of the greatest Deutz cuvées of the modern era.” 98/100 Tyson Stelzer, author of The Champagne Guide.

Stock is currently abroad and due to ship in February