NV Vilmart Cuvee Rubis Rose Champagne

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Levi Dalton

Levi Dalton
I have followed various releases of this wine over several years now, and it has always been a go to favorite. But the new release, in the Tim Burton-does-Batman-black-bottle, is in a different vein than those that I had tried previously. Much more mineral, much more driven, and quite dry. The soft-summer-day-give-me-a-push-on-the-swing-set fruit has been punched out here. This wine is vinous and out for blood. A chiseled middle weight fighter who hasn't smiled for several rounds.

Possibly Bertrand Russell was the consulting oenologist here, as this wine has an intellectual side that seems willing to try drilling down to the basic mathematical truths underpinning our foundations.
 
originally posted by Levi Dalton:
NV Vilmart Cuvee Rubis Rose ChampagneI have followed various releases of this wine over several years now, and it has always been a go to favorite. But the new release, in the Tim Burton-does-Batman-black-bottle, is in a different vein than those that I had tried previously. Much more mineral, much more driven, and quite dry. The soft-summer-day-give-me-a-push-on-the-swing-set fruit has been punched out here. This wine is vinous and out for blood. A chiseled middle weight fighter who hasn't smiled for several rounds.

Possibly Bertrand Russell was the consulting oenologist here, as this wine has an intellectual side that seems willing to try drilling down to the basic mathematical truths underpinning our foundations.
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I opened our first-ever bottle of this last night. We've really enjoyed everything we've had from Vilmart, but this wine took it to a new level. Jean gave it one of her rare "We've got to get more of this!" ratings. Lithe and nimble with fragrant strawberryish fruit, vivid minerality and a creamy mouthfeel. Jean told me that, if we'd had another bottle, she would have asked me to open it, a rare reaction on a Monday night.

Mark Lipton
 
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