NV Fleur de Miraval Champagne
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The NV Brut Rosé ER 4 (base 2020) is the best wine yet in this series from Fleur de Miraval. It offers lovely textural resonance and a level of overall cohesion that has been elusive in the first releases. Delicate red berry fruit, crushed flowers and gentle spice overtones all build nicely. This is the first vintage done with direct pressing of the skins for the Pinot, and that seems to make a positive impact. The blend is 50% base-vintage Pinot Noir, 25% perpetual reserve and 25% older, bottled Blanc de Blancs that are blended in to create a Champagne with layers of maturity.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Julia Harding MW, jancisrobinson.com
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A pale peachy salmon color, the NV Champagne Fleur De Miraval ER3 Brut Rose is very pleasing but a bit more inward at this stage, with tropical but very refined notes of orange pith, a hint of passionfruit, and white peach. Chalky earth also shines through, and it has a creamy mousse, but not quite like that of the 4th edition. Medium-bodied, it’s more energetic and lively compared to its younger sibling and has a bit more bitter citrus on the finish. Drink 2025-2040. It’s made from 2018 Pinot Noir along with perpetual reserve from 2007 to 2017.
75% Chardonnay (some of it coming from Rodolphe Péters' perpetual reserve), 25% Pinot Noir. ER3 is based on the 2018 vintage. Disgorged in May 2022 (three years sur lattes). Dosage 4.5 g/l. Made as a joint project with the Perrin family and Rodolphe Péters. The Trivet team paired Miraval's champagne with gougères filled with lemon-zested goat's curd, and it really was spot on. It's a rather rich, showy, weighty wine. Opulent and intensely ripe fruit, more sweetness than you'd expect, considering the low dosage. But it doesn't justify the price tag (which ranges from £180 to £350 a bottle). (TC)
Tasted blind. Full bottle 1,622 g. About 75% Chardonnay from a perpetual reserve that is about 15 years old, the rest is Pinot Noir. Medium-deep pink. Big bubbles. Buttered rhubarb-candy sweetness. Butterscotch and raspberries. It tastes as if the dosage is quite high, or is it just that the fruit is ripe and intense? Very rich, powerful and leesy. Quite a statement. (TC)