Bruno Paillard Blanc de Blancs Vintage 1996

Bruno Paillard Blanc de Blancs Vintage 1996

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  • Jancis Robinson rating 94
  • Vinous rating 93
Bruno Paillard Blanc de Blancs Vintage 1996
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`Bruno Paillard Blanc de Blancs Vintage 1996 is a vintage Champagne produced in Reims, France. Bruno Paillard is an independent and family-owned Champagne house founded in Reims in 1981. The 1996 vintage blanc de blancs is produced from a first pressing of Chardonnay grapes from privileged vineyard sites in Oger and Le Mesnil-sur-Oger. About 25% of the wine is vinified in oak barrels and the wine spent nine years aging on its lees prior to disgorgement in the house`s cellars, with a further 12 months of resting in bottle after disgorgement.
94 Jancis Robinson
The 1996 Brut Blanc de Blancs is a rich, explosive wine that bursts onto the palate with a blast of ripe fruit. Generous notes of toasted oak, flowers and nuts follow, but everything is woven together in a fabric of unsual brilliance. The oak remains quite prominent and borderline intrusive but stylistically everything works. The wine comes together in the glass, where it also gains additional weight and fills out nicely. This is a powerful, heady and totally opulent Champagne that calls for food. In the right context it is sure to be extraordinary. At the risk of offending the Champenoise, the 1996 Brut Blanc de Blancs seems to scream for a poached egg generously topped with white Alba truffles! Disgorged: July, 2007. Anticipated maturity: 2009-2019.

This is an impressive line-up from the charming Bruno Paillard. A recent tasting of multiple, older disgorgements of Paillard’s Premiere Cuvee showed that wine’s ability to develop beautifully in the cellar.

Importer: Vintus LLC, Pleasantville, NJ tel. (914) 769-3000Antonio Galloni22nd December 2009
93 Vinous
(disgorged July, 2007) Bright yellow-gold with fine bubbles. Deeply pitched citrus and pear aromas are complemented by notes of talc, jasmine and anise. Powerful, palate-staining lemon and Anjou pear flavors are strikingly fresh and penetrating. With its strong back-end lift and kick of white pepper, this very young wine is balanced to reward patience. Josh Raynolds1st November 2009

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Bruno Paillard is an independent and family-owned Champagne house founded in 1981 by the eponymous Bruno Paillard. Since 2018, this revered House has been run by Bruno’s daughter, Alice Paillard. Situated in Reims in the heart of Champagne, the house champions slow and sustainable viticulture and produces wonderfully pure and elegant wines, notably the Première Cuvée Extra-Brut and the Première Cuvée Rosé.

Working with over 30 different crus and 100 parcels, from Verzenay to Chouilly, the wines of Bruno Paillard are characterised by their wonderful precision and energy.

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