Champagne Aubry, Dualis, Brut NV

Aubry Dualis Brut Champagne is a first-release, EXTREMELY LIMITED Champagne, blended with 1998 Chardonnay aged in new oak for 2 years with no malo and less CO2, and 1999 Pinot Noir in 4-year-old oak for 1 year, then blended together with virtually no dosage. Stunning! ONLY 40 CASES MADE!

“Half-and-half 1999 and 1998 (!), Chardonnay and Pinot – each site-specific – and matured in used barriques, the Aubry NV Brut Dualis Disg. 2/2013 has acquired pronouncedly nutty piquancy and smoky evolution of yeast from its 151 months sur latte. But of wood per se, there is no sign. Nor does this suffer in the least from having been finished with only 2 grams of residual sugar (and yet, with a mere two-thirds of standard pressure). Sourdough yeasts, buckwheat and tasted rye, walnut and hickory, noble mushrooms and smoldering autumn foliage rise from the glass and, for all of their evolved sense of complexity, are embraced on the silken-textured palate by vivacious fresh lemon juiciness, sea water, and oyster liquor, leading to a finish of cheek-pinching, salivary gland-squeezing invigoration and head-scratching diversity. I suspect you will want to – if able – open a bottle a year for another half dozen.”-94WA