Franck Bonville - Champagne Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Pur Avize 2018 (Pre-arrival) (750ml)

Wine Advocate 93+
"The 2018 Pur Avize Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs is showing well today with a more mineral, chalky character than Pur Oger. It reveals aromas of ripe orchard fruits, chalk, flowers, lemon oil and citrus. Medium to full-bodied, crystalline and pure on the palate, it is vinous and round, with a fleshy core of fruit, bright acids, a pinpoint mousse and a long, saline finish enhanced by gastronomic bitterness. Dosage: 3.3. grams per liter."
Rosenthal Wine Merchant
"Bonville’s spectacular “Pur Avize” is sourced from three choice parcels in the heart of their home village: Les Avats, Les Maladries, and Les Chapelles. Combining the saline cut of the “Pur Mesnil” and the richness of the “Pur Oger,” this cuvée adds an undercurrent of flint, making it perhaps the most complex and complete of the trio. Like its brethren, this undergoes alcoholic and malolactic fermentation in steel, and is disgorged after a five-year stint on its lees."