Best Ultra dry champagne

[alan_weinberg]

your contributions are amazing, Brad.

[Warren_Taranow]

@alan weinberg

your contributions are amazing, Brad.

I agree (even the 13 month old contributions)!

[Frank_Murray_III]

@Kelly Walker

Any of the Ruppert-Leroy offerings. Brut Nature and sans soufre.
Acquired taste.

I had my first bottle of Ruppert-Leroy today and I was very impressed. I’m eager to try more and see if other bottles show as good as this one did. Terrific.

• NV Ruppert-Leroy Champagne Pinot Noir Brut Nature Les Cognaux - France, Champagne (3/11/2018)
  First bottle of this, and first time with this producer. I am impressed. This is a zero dose bottling, too. Light brioche with a distinctly savory quality, a kind of tarragon or herb thing. I don’t mean this as a negative, but quite the opposite, as it’s uniquely good. Lemony citrus and after a good deal of air, this showed a persistent chalky note into the finish. I like this for $50 and I’m prepared to buy more of this producer when it hits my radar again.

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[M.Kaplan]

@Claus Jeppesen

Dosage is like facebook: soo yesterday
Vouette et Sorbee Cuvee Blanc d’Argile Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut is fantastic

Indeed. As is Bereche Les Beaux Regards.

[Travis_allen1]

@Andrew Hamilton

@Brad Baker

The easiest to find example of this style is probably Roederer’s 2006 Brut Nature. Savart, Goeffroy, Selosse, and Doyard are a few producers who also make wines in this style.

+1 on the Louis Roederer Brut Nature 2006. I had a glass of this a couple weekends ago at my annual deep fried turkey and Champagne tasting. It was easily my Champagne of the day. Bone dry, loaded with citrus fruit notes, acidic, with laser like precision.

+2 on the Roederer Brut Nature. They’ve only made it twice and I like both '06 and '09. I hear people talk about Roederer in the same way as many of the mega-production negociants, but I was told their brut nature is made from a single biodynamic vineyard that they own.

[Pat_Martin]

@Warren Taranow

I love the NV Philipponnat Champagne Brut Non-Dosé. I’ve refilled 750’s and mags several times from RWC. Great price too.

+1.

[John_Morris]

@Alan Eden

Looking for bone dry, mouth puckering acidity and dryness.

No residual sweetness at all

Did you ever try one, Alan?

[Howard_Cooper]

@alan weinberg

your contributions are amazing, Brad.

+1

[Kelly_Walker]

@Frank Murray III

@Kelly Walker

Any of the Ruppert-Leroy offerings. Brut Nature and sans soufre.
Acquired taste.

I had my first bottle of Ruppert-Leroy today and I was very impressed. I’m eager to try more and see if other bottles show as good as this one did. Terrific.

• NV Ruppert-Leroy Champagne Pinot Noir Brut Nature Les Cognaux - France, Champagne (3/11/2018)
  First bottle of this, and first time with this producer. I am impressed. This is a zero dose bottling, too. Light brioche with a distinctly savory quality, a kind of tarragon or herb thing. I don’t mean this as a negative, but quite the opposite, as it’s uniquely good. Lemony citrus and after a good deal of air, this showed a persistent chalky note into the finish. I like this for $50 and I’m prepared to buy more of this producer when it hits my radar again.

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I think they make 4 or 5 cuvée. Great stuff. Drier than a popcorn fart.

[Alan_Eden]

@John Morris

@Alan Eden

Looking for bone dry, mouth puckering acidity and dryness.

No residual sweetness at all

Did you ever try one, Alan?

Tried a couple, nothing to severe though. I do love them and nee to track down some of the smaller grower options mentioned

[Mason_H]

Veuve Fourny & Fils Champagne Brut Nature is really nice and reasonably priced.

[Otto_Forsberg]

I’ve always considered Janisson Baradon a reliable but a tad boring producer, but their Non-Dosé NV really managed to surprise me. Sure, it was bright and mineral as a non-dosage Champ should be, but its pronounced toasty character and even suggestions of oxidative nuttiness served as a perfect foil to the lack of sweetness, making the wine come across less lean and austere as many non-dosages without showing any residual sweetness.

I also concur on the abovementioned point with Marguet. They really do make spectacular wines - although their very burly and muscular style might not be everyone’s cup of tea.

[Bob_Hoelting]

For under $20, the Gruet Blanc de Blancs Sauvage is pretty hard to beat on value. Super crisp and clean.

[p_raghib]

Roederer Starck/Brut Nature is the only one I’ve bought more than once…

[Yao_C]

I do like the '09 Roederer Brut Nature, and am actually serving it this Friday to my tasting group at work. It and the Laurent-Perrier are my two favorites in the category

[Frank_Murray_III]

I am with Otto. The Marguet range is really something terrific, quickly has become my top producer of bubbly in my own cellar.