Ariston Aspasie "Brut de Fût" Champagne
Review Date: 10/2025
This is not a flashy Champagne dandy—more one to sip and contemplate. Firmly planting your feet where the wine was made, it tastes like an old Champagne cellar, but an exceedingly good way. This wine shows rather than tells—apple tarte tatin, lemon verbena, and a faint hit of smoke with a flinty minerality and a racy acidity that cuts a marvelous swath of masculine class and finesse. There’s a difficult to describe sense of the dark shadows in a cold, dusty cellar. These wistful qualities can never be produced on a large commercial scale — one for true lovers of the complex side of micro-lot grower Champagne.
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If you haven't had the tiny production Champagne, this is a rare opportunity to do so. They only make 14 barrels of it - and not every year! It is composed of 50% Chardonnay, 25% Pinot Noir, and 25% Meunier that is barrel fermented, but not aged in oak. They bottle in February at Aspasie, so this wine saw less than six months in barrel and then eight years on the lees in the bottle before disgorgement. It is incredibly rich, powerful Champagne, but maintains its freshness and minerality quite effortlessly. If you have been a fan Bollinger, Krug, or Tarlant's Cuvée Louis in the past, you will do well to snatch this up! (Gary Westby, K&L Champagne Buyer)
Product Details
Origin: Champagne, France
Type/Varietal: Other White Wines
SKU: #1003160