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Bottle of Pierre Gerbais Champagne Extra Brut Champ Viole NV [Disg. '22] [NET]-Sparkling Wine-Flatiron SF

Pierre Gerbais Champagne Extra Brut Champ Viole NV [Disg. '22] [NET]

Sparkling Wine from Champagne, France
by Pierre Gerbais
$69.99
NET

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Whatever your school was like — football? yearbook editor? trigonometry? — it was no doubt quite different than wine school in Beaune, Burgundy. There, the likes of David Croix, Mathilde Grivot, Amélie Berthaut and Armand Heitz hung out drinking at Le Square and learning how to make wines. All of them are now on their way to becoming Burgundy’s new crop of stars.

Not everyone in that crowd ended up in Burgundy. Sometimes we forget how close Beaune is to Champagne, especially the Aube. If you grow up in the Aube, you actually live closer to Beaune than to Reims and many Aubois go to Beaune for schooling.

So it was that Aurélien Gerbais ended up in Beaune, palling around with many of Burgundy's future stars. He even worked at one of Burgundy's well-established stars, Olivier Lamy of St. Aubin. After that amazing hands-on experience he eventually made his way back to Champagne to join another group of visionaries, Aube stars like Cedric Bouchard, Vouette & Sorbée and Ulysse Collin. Even so, to this day he says, “I consider myself more Burgundian than Champenois.” That’s the Aube for you.

Gerbais’ family domaine is in the village of Celles-sur-Ource. The soils are Kimmeridgian, though there's a sector where the limestone-clay mix is nearly identical to what you find in the Côte d’Or. His family has farmed organically since the 1990s, but when Aurélien took over (this is recently; he’s still in his 20s) he brought Lamy’s obsessive farming home with him, elevating the domaine's game even further.

Professional Reviews

Antonio Galloni

AG 92
"The NV Extra Brut Champ Viole is a pure Chardonnay from a single-south-facing parcel in Celles-sur-Ource from a perpetual reserve containing the years 2011-2019, bottled in 2020. Summer blossom, jasmine and lemon make for a fragrant, bright nose. The palate is light, pervaded by the finest mousse. Everything is bright, juicy, vivid, animated, lively, slender, agile and mobile. There is a deep sense of fruit and so much resonance and depth. This is an unusual Blanc de Blancs from the Côte des Bar with an extra and beguiling dimension." -Antonio Galloni

Robert Parker

RP 93
"From a south-facing parcel that was once the cemetery of the monks who planted the first vineyards in Celles-sur-Ource, the NV Extra-Brut Champ Viole is drawn from a perpetual reserve spanning the 2011-2018 vintages that's been matured in tank. Delivering complex aromas of pear, sweet orchard fruit, white flowers, buttery pastry and nutmeg, it's medium to full-bodied, fleshy and seamless, with a deep core of fruit, racy acids and a pillowy mousse." -William Kelley

Details

  • Grape Variety

    Chardonnay

  • Vintage

    NV

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Organic

  • Style

    Crisp , Fruity , Minerally

  • Sweetness

    Champagne Extra Brut , Dry

  • Body

    Light Bodied