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Cedric Bouchard Roses de Jeanne Champagne Le Creux d'Enfer Rose Oenoteque 2010

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Antonio Galloni

93 points

"Bouchard's 2010 Rosé de Saignée Creux d'Enfer is lifted, aromatic and haunting in its beauty. Savory herbs, tobacco, licorice, Asian spices, mint and anise are all very much alive. In 2010, the Rosé is especially feminine and aromatic in style, with mid-weight presence and a somewhat fragile personality. The Rosé is made in a somewhat stark, minimalist fashion. The fruit is all crushed by foot and vinified with 100% whole clusters that are quite prominent. My experience with the more fragile vintages of Creux d'Enfer is that the wines evolve pretty quickly, so I suggest drinking the 2010 sooner rather than later." —Antonio Galloni

Robert Parker

97 points

"Disgorged in April 2014, Cédric Bouchard’s 2010 Rosé de Saignée Le Creux d'Enfer has aged beautifully, offering a deep bouquet of verbena, blood orange, wild strawberry, cherry, rose petals and a hint of quince. On the palate, it’s medium- to full-bodied, layered and profound, with a sweet core of fruit framed by racy acids and enlivened by a pinpoint mousse, concluding with a sapid, delicately perfumed finish. Harmonious and kaleidoscopically complex, it continues to shine 11 years post-disgorgement and underscores why it ranks among my—and many readers’—favorite rosés in Champagne." —Kristaps Karklins

More about Cedric Bouchard

It is commonplace to pick up a bottle of wine and see on the label both the vintage and the name of the place where the grapes were grown. But in Champagne, weirdly, this was not done for the longest of times. Eventually, Krug started releasing its "Clos de Mensil" and Philipponnat started releasing its "Clos des Goisses", but until well into the 1990s that was about it. Even today, perhaps only one bottle of Champagne in 50 indicate vintage and vineyard site on the label.

Jacques Selosse did more, perhaps, then anyone else to promote the concept of single vineyard/single vintage expressions in Champagne. There are now a small handful of others, many of whom are his protégés, whose fame is not quite at the level of Selosse's but who are coming close. Top among that group is Cédric Bouchard.

Bouchard works in the Aube. There, he produces nothing but single vineyard/single vintage/single variety wines. Everything is farmed naturally and organically. Yields are some of the lowest in Champagne. The manipulations that are common in Champagne, such as chaptalization, addition of dosage, fining and cold stabilization, are all avoided. Unlike Selosse and many other growers of this ilk, he uses only steel casks for fermentations and elevage.

His Champagnes are immensely concentrated and definitely fruit and mineral-centric. There are no bready or yeasty flavors, certainly no oak flavors, no sweetness, and none of the flavors that come from other manipulations. The bubbles are super fine and a little bit lighter than in "normal" Champagne. They really are pure expressions of what they are, and they are truly singular.

They are also really hard to source. He has an impossibly small amount of land: just 1.37 hectares of his own, plus another plot of 1.49 hectares owned by his father that he now bottles. He sorts severely, both in the vineyard and in the winery, and keeps only the best juice for himself, selling the rest to the Big Houses. As a consequence, bottles of Bouchard are quite rare. We get what we can, but it's never enough.

Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Pinot Noir

  • Vintage

    2010

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Organic

  • Style

    Crisp , Fruity , Minerally

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Light Bodied

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