NV Suenen Oiry Blancs de Blancs, Extra Brut (2018)

NV Suenen Oiry Blancs de Blancs, Extra Brut (2018)

  • JG 93+
  • WA 92
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92 Points - Wine Advocate:  Including 50% reserve wines, Suenen's NV Extra-Brut Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Oiry (2018 base) offers up inviting aromas of sweet orchard fruits, dried white flowers, baking spices and fresh bread. Medium to full-bodied, racy and vibrant, with a fleshy core of fruit, excellent concentration and a sapid finish, it's a terrific effort from one of the new stars of Champagne. Drink: 2022-2032.

93+ Points - John Gilman (View From the Cellar):  Aurélien Suenen’s “Oiry” Blanc de Blancs is another beautiful grand cru bottling, with the new release again hailing from the base year of 2018. Monsieur Suenen’s vines in this village are forty-five years of age. It was aged for a bit more than three years on its fine lees and disgorged in October of 2021, with the dosage to finish this wine a touch lower than the more brisk “C+C” cuvée, as this wine received three grams per liter. The complex bouquet here is beautifully precise out of the blocks, delivering scents of white peach, apple, just a touch of hazelnut, a lovely base of limestone, just a whisper of oak, warm bread, citrus peel, discreet smokiness and a topnote of spring flowers. On the palate the wine is bright, full-bodied and fairly tensile, with a good core, elegant mousse, fine focus and grip and a long, mineral-driven and racy finish. Like the “C+C”, the Oiry is a wine built for the cellar and really needs five or six years in the cellar to truly blossom and start to drink with generosity. It has excellent potential and it would truly be a shame to not give it the time in the cellar it needs to drink with generosity. Great juice. 2027-2050.