Burgundy & Champagne
Timed Online Auction, 2 - 12 June 2023
Champagne & Burgundy
About the SessionThe wines of Burgundy and single vineyard Champagnes are produced in small quantities and command high prices. Rarely traded, mature bottles are even more rare in our small market.
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About this Item
Champagne Claude Cazals is run by the ebullient Delphine Cazals; her house is attached to the winery, and Delphine’s mother lives in the château inside the Clos de Cazals. The estate was founded in 1897 by Ernest Cazals, a cooper from the south of France. He was Catalan, hence the name, same as the renowned cellist, Pablo Casals. He moved to Champagne where he met his wife, and together they created a Champagne house in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger. Since then, three generations of wine-growers – including Delphine’s father Claude Cazals, who invented the gyropalette in 1969 – have followed each other at the head of the winery. This small family estate has the status of RM (Récoltant Manipulant) and produces around 5500 cases per year.
This lot consists of the following Champagnes:
Claude Cazals Carte Or Grand Cru NV (2 x 750ml)
Claude Cazals Cuvée Vive Grand Cru NV (1 x 750ml)
Disgorged July 2016.
Critics Ratings
Claude Cazals Carte Or Grand Cru NV
‘Chardonnay. So much more development than the Laithwaite's English wines shown alongside! Well bought and a decent price for a biscuity champagne from Le Mesnil. Under-priced in fact!’ - Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com, 16/20 (May 2017)
‘Aromas of baked pineapple cede to a delightful mousse on the palate, with gentle acidity propelling notes of butter biscuit, brioche and lemon cake. Inviting, and fairly long.’ - Simon Field MW, Decanter.com, 91/100 (Jul 2018)
‘It's showing well, offering up aromas of ripe citrus, toasted brioche, white flowers and honeycomb. Medium to full-bodied, it's fleshy, lively and energetic, with good depth at the core, a fine mousse and a nicely defined finish.’ - William Kelley, Wine Advocate (Apr 2020)
Claude Cazals Cuvée Vive Grand Cru NV
‘The NV Extra-Brut Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Cuvée Vive unfurls in the glass with scents of wet stones, iodine, lemon oil, crisp green apple and brioche. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, with a ripe core of fruit, racy acids and a penetratingly chalky finish. This finely balanced bottling is showing very well.’ - William Kelley, Wine Advocate, 92/100 (Apr 2020)
‘Fresh and round with mature aromas, citrus and peach. Palate is forward and approachable, with hints of exotic fruit in support of the chalky elegance.’ - Decanter.com, 16/20
Provenance
Restaurant Mosaic
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