Dehours Œil de Perdrix Extra Brut Champagne NV (750 ml) Touriga Francesca

Dehours Œil de Perdrix Extra Brut Champagne NV (750 ml) Touriga Francescashowing nicely, unwinding in the glass with scents of raspberries, fresh peach and mandarin oil. Medium to full bodied, taut and incisive, its tightly wound, with racy acids and a pretty pinpoint mousse. Theres less flesh on the wines structural bones here than in last years disgorgement, but it should unwind nicely with time in the cellar.

A refined cuvée of noble red grapes perfected by our pioneering clonal research

I'm not convinced that this is the most compelling aesthetic that a Cabernet-based blend from this part of Bordeaux can realize

as flavors of ripe black cherry

remarkably fine and elegant

The king of France used to have their castles and gardens there

The perfect

It finishes dry with delicate yeasty notes

No right or wrong

The program began with two friends in Friuli who helped us source the Pinot Grigio

apple and spice flavors mark this lively white

blackberry and black cherry paste flavors forming a lush side while a series of I-beams made of graphite and iron provide the rigid structure

Although the palate is quite concentrated