2014 Alexandre Le Brun "Cuvée Revelation" Extra Brut Champagne

Name: 2014 Alexandre Le Brun "Cuvée Revelation" Extra Brut Champagne
SKU: 1630234
Price: 79.99 USD
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Rating: 0 (7 reviews)

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Gary Westby

K&L Buyer

When we drank a bottle of this wine for our aperitif with figs stuffed with onion jam and cheese, I thought to myself, "this is the best current release Champagne I have had this year!" The golden color belies the extraordinary freshness on the nose and on the palate. The bouquet was generous, with fresh baguette and subtle peach aromas. In the mouth the wine was as elegant as any in our stock, the opposite of the reputation that Meunier has been unfairly given by many of the big houses. Certainly the wine has concentration and power, with layers of toast, green pear and subtle vanilla, but everything is in such perfect balance that I struggle to describe it. The finish is as long and kaleidoscopic as anything I have ever had. Don’t miss this one. There is not a lot to go around!

Staff Reviews

Michael Benoit

The 2014 Alexandre Le Brun Cuvee Revelation has a very fresh nose, with crisp pear undertones. On the palate, flavors of Meyer lemon and Bartlett pear intertwine with a lightly saline minerality. This champagne has wonderful power and drive, and a mysterious and lingering finish. A delicious champagne with so much complexity to explore!

Scott Beckerley

Pear nose with baking spices, muted earth, and yellow apple scents. Significantly more saline and citrus scents than the previous 2012 release. On the palate, very clean and crisp, with poached pear, green and gold apples, finishing with savory spice and lemon zest, as well as chalk. The bead is very, very, fine and delicate. Alex has done it, again! I suspect that this bottling will also age extremely well in the cellar.

Alex Leonardini

Beautifully golden in color, with intense aromas of toast, hazelnut, and fresh bread leaping from the glass. Initial appearances may tell a story of richness and autolytic flavor dominance, but at first sip the 2014 Alexandre Le Brun "Cuvee Revelation" bursts with wonderful minerality, citrus fruit, and lively, zippy acidity to perfectly balance its more confectionary side. Precisely balanced and engagingly intense, this is a Champagne to stock up on and pop at every opportunity.

Notes

This Champagne comes from a very special plot in Monthelon, just behind the Le Brun house on a southeast facing slope. It is entirely Meunier, half of which was planted in 1952 and the other half in 1902; the oldest living vines that I have seen in Champagne. The village of Monthelon is in the Côteaux de Sud Épernay, one of the coldest microclimates in Champagne, and that cold climate, in tandem with these ancient vines, has given us a truly epic wine. Alex’s craft has added to this — he uses a combination of small oak and large foudres for this wine along with a very long, slow fermentation like at Billecart-Salmon. The very cool and even 2014 vintage has also contributed, giving this wine extra electricity, and I think making it even better than the spectacular 2012. -Gary Westby, K&L

Details

Origin	Champagne, France
Type/Varietal	Other White Wines
SKU	1630234