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By: Michael Benoit | K&L Staff Member | Review Date: 7/13/2023 | Send Email
Wow! The Boulard-Bauquaire "Trepail" Brut Blanc de Blancs is everything I want in a blanc de blancs. The nose is floral and faintly bready, and the slight sourdough toast on the palate is in perfect balance with the flavors of meyer lemon, pear, and apricot. The wonderful fine bead gives this champagne a velvety texture that goes down easy, and the acidity is fairly delicate, but plenty to keep it refreshing and keep you coming back for more. A great champagne to enjoy on the first warm days of summer!
Top Value!
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By: Alex Schroeder | K&L Staff Member | Review Date: 7/13/2023 | Send Email
The Chardonnay used in this Blanc de Blancs comes from premier cru vineyards on the Montagne de Reims, and the quality of the fruit is evident. Lovely aromas of roasted almonds, butterscotch and fresh lemon meringue lift from the glass; on the palate a soft chalky minerality rides alongside nicely balanced acidity. Another home run from our DI Champagne program.
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By: Scott Beckerley | K&L Staff Member | Review Date: 7/13/2023 | Send Email
A lovely, creamy nose of lemon meringue, bread dough and chalk. On the palate, it starts out full with golden apples, crème fraiche and macaroon. By the mid-palate, up pops the acidity, chalk, and lemon flavors. Long, chalky finish that lingers. An excellent value for this quality of Blanc de Blancs!
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By: Ryan Woodhouse | K&L Staff Member | Review Date: 7/13/2023 | Send Email
This was the highlight of a recent Blanc De Blanc tasting at K&L. This wine is so fine, aromatic and complex. I just loved the delicate floral aromas, lingering minerals and elegant texture this wine expressed. Just remarkable quality for a small grower Champagne of this pedigree and from an old vine parcel to boot. Awesome!
Top Value!
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By: Gary Westby | K&L Staff Member | Review Date: 7/13/2023 | Send Email
This is our most exotic and intense Blanc de Blancs, all from one ancient vineyard in the 1er cru of Trepail. This bottle just took the staff by storm when I poured a flight of all Chardonnay Champagne for my final staff training seminar of the year. The Boulard Bauquaire made bottles twice the price seem hollow with its wonderful richness and white fruit quality. Luckily, this Champagne also has a great dry, long, chalky finish!
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By: Neal Fischer | K&L Staff Member | Review Date: 8/30/2022 | Send Email
Clean citrus, light floral notes, and just a touch of yeast make for a fresh and focused nose on this Champagne. On the palate there's more yellow fruit, concentrated nectarine, and lemon zest. What a wonderful and classic old vine Blanc de Blanc.
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By: Heather Vander Wall | K&L Staff Member | Review Date: 10/10/2016 | Send Email
Don't miss the two words "Vieilles Vignes" in the name of this wine. The lovely Blanc de Blancs of Boulard Bauquaire owes much of its complexity and depth to the 70-year-old vines from which the wine is made. Like a classic Blanc de Blancs, this wine shows elegant, stony aromas that are rather austere at first, but on the palate, the depth of flavor is phenomenal. Not only is there an impression of full, rich, apricot fruit and even some red berry elements, but the drive of the acidity takes a position here very well integrated to the whole. This wine is hardly lacking in body and richness, but it is not due to the boldness of a red grape, rather it is all in the old vine power.
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By: Shaun Green | K&L Staff Member | Review Date: 10/4/2016 | Send Email
Oh wow, I tasted this and immediately bought a case. It's amazing to find any Champagne from seriously old vines at all, much less at this price. Rich and creamy as you would expect from all my colleagues' reviews and one of the best deals in Champagne in the store.
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By: Kyle Kurani | K&L Staff Member | Review Date: 3/11/2015 | Send Email
What a charming bottle of bubbles. One of our newest additions to the line up, this a wonderfully enjoyable, open knit and effortless. The nose is cream and zest, maybe a touch of fresh lemon scone. The palate is soft and supple, perky notes of yellow peach and Meyer lemon, clean and pretty. The old vine material comes through on the finish, pure and lengthy. Just a joy to drink.
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