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

Wine Advocate 94
"One of my favorites, the 2018 Pur Mesnil Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs possesses a pure, fresh bouquet of white fruits, lemon oil, flowers, ripe orchard fruits and menthol. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and enrobing, it's perfectly balanced with bright acids, a pinpoint mousse, and a long, mineral and ethereal finish. Fleshier and more precise than the Avize, it was disgorged with a dosage of 3.3 grams per liter."
Rosenthal Wine Merchant
"Pur Mesnil” hails from three parcels on the lower stretches of the grand cru of Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, where Bonville owns 1.5 hectares of vines: Les Zailleux, Le Tilleul, and Les Hautes Mottes. In this hallowed cru, topsoil is nearly nonexistent, as the underlying chalk is found just centimeters below the surface, and wine it yields is chiseled, saline, and bristling with tension. The five years lees aging to which Bonville subjects this cuvée lends a sense of creaminess which nicely offsets the terroir’s tendency toward severity. “Pur Mesnil” is vinified entirely in stainless steel, and undergoes full malolactic fermentation."