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.
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.
Disgorged January 2016.
Provenance
Restaurant Mosaic
Critics Ratings
‘Offering up pretty aromas of warm bread, red apples and tangerine, it's medium to full-bodied, fleshy and charming, with racy acids, a generous core of fruit and a chalky, nicely defined finish. This is a friendly, expressive rosé that will win many friends.’ - William Kelley, Wine Advocate, 90/100 (Apr 2020)
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