A wine that caught fire with us a few years ago started here in the “Which Champagne are you drinking?” thread when a few generous folks posted on the below champagne and mentioned we sold it to them. We continue to this day to have the best listed price in the US! Most of those folks also re-order at least once a year to re-load. I recently had the latest disgorge and it is outstanding as it usually is, a wine that over delivers for the money and should probably cost closer to $100. Each bottle comes wrapped in tissue paper and in the unique packaging of the straw in the photo below.
Our best-selling champagne, stock up now for the fall and the holidays!
Grand Cru ‘Un Jour de 1911’
$65.99 on 6+ bottles*
$68.99 reg US LOW
*Mix & match OK
This batch was disgorged on 10/2023
96 pts Wine Advocate
(previous disgorge)
The NV Un jour de 1911… is another 100% Bouzy Pinot Noir with an ancient label design. The shining golden-colored cuvée combines ripeness, complexity and finesse with intensity and elegance on both the nose and palate. It’s a powerful and rich yet very fine and balanced Champagne with great freshness and complex length. It is juicy and intense but also highly delicate, and its mineral tension and persistent finish make it a first-class wine for elaborate dishes. A great Champagne, with a label that doesn’t give any more detailed information regarding vintages or disgorgement date, but we know it’s always a 50/50 blend of three vintages (including one great millésime at least 10 years old) and reserve wines from a solera system. I tasted the wine as a Brut with Clouet’s German importer in Bremen. You shouldn’t drink it too early, as it would be a waste of its talents.(4/2021)
Composition
50% fermented in used barrique from Sauternes house Doisy Daene
50% Solera of the last 10 years
Dosage: 5 g/L
Cepage: 100% Pinot Noir
Vineyard: Estate Grand Cru vineyards surrounding the village of Bouzy. Chalk and Clay soils.
Winemaking: Full malo, aged in stainless steel and neutral barrel.
Aging: 6 years sur lattes
The domaine’s tête de cuvée, comprised of 100% pinot noir from Clouet’s ten best lieux-dits in the Grand Cru vineyards of Bouzy. Production is limited to no more than 1911 bottles per disgorgement. The Clouet family has been growing grapes in Bouzy and Ambonnay since 1751 and been making and selling estate bottled Champagne since 1900. Some of the vineyards the family now farms (owned by Jean François Clouet’s mother Françoise) were a gift to her ancestor from Napoleon on said ancestor’s retirement. Andre Clouet’s 10 hectares of estate vineyards are still in the villages of Bouzy and Ambonnay. The estate operation which specializes in Pinot Noir-only cuvees is now run by Jean François Clouet (owner, manager, promoter, motive force, force of nature. 1991 bottles per release.
