Bruno Paillard Blanc de Blancs Vintage, Champagne, France 2013 Domaine Barraud with freshly baked berry pastry

with freshly baked berry pastry and ripe raspberry

with a portion from the Awatere Valley and the balance from the Wairau Valley

with a texture between silk and velvet

which makes it quite approachable now

It’s minerally at the end with refinement

Bruno Paillard Blanc de Blancs Vintage, Champagne, France 2013 Domaine Barraud with freshly baked berry pastryDisgorged in September 2021 with a dosage of 4. 5 grams per liter, Bruno Paillards 2013 Blanc de Blancs Millsim offers a bright and pure bouquet with aromas of verbena, spring flowers, citrus and chalky mineral notes. Medium to full bodied, precise and crystalline, tense, rich and perfectly balanced, its vibrant with a long, persistent finish. In a word: exquisite! 93 Pts Robert Parker