Champagne Franck Bonville Collection Privée 2008

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Variety

Blanc de Blancs, 100% Chardonnay

Regions

Avize, Côte des Blancs, Champagne

Selected for Tyson Stelzer's Top 12 Champagnes of 2020!

The evidence is now beyond doubt that 2008 will take it place as one of the premier Champagne vintages of the 21st century. Great houses large and small have released their prestige cuvees to universal acclaim and these majestic wines are assured of a long and glorious future in the cellar. 2008 vintage Champagne represents one of the best investments in vinous pleasure that a Champagne lover will ever make.

Australia's pre-eminent Champagne scribe Tyson Stelzer called 2008 ‘a vintage of classic finesse, crystalline purity, tightly clenched acidity and monumental longevity.’ He added that 2008 is ‘the essence of Champagne,’ in his 10/10 review in The Champagne Guide 2018/2019.

This is a very special and limited release, the brainchild of Olivier Bonville to present Champagne lovers with a late-disgorged expression of 2008 - these bottles have spent nearly 10 years on lees in the chalk cellars under the streets of Avize before being disgorged in March 2019

This Champagne has been awarded 98 points and ranked #1 of all 2008 French Chardonnay wines by Huon Hooke in the Real Review: "...A wonderfully complex, mouthfilling, multi-faceted wine which is totally satisfying and ultra-rewarding. Just magical."

Stocks are limited of this special Grand Cru blanc de blancs Champagne, which deserves a place in every conoisseur's cellar

Tasting Notes
Technical Notes

Tasting Notes

The nose is mature, powerful and very clear. The first sent introduces aromas of brioche, vanilla and bakery. Then honey, beeswax and candied fruits appear by the aeration.

After a couple seconds in the glass, we start to recognize the alcohol, the old Portos and the stone fruits. The nose is full and well-balanced.

The mouth is sweet, round and the freshness is sensible. The maturity we felt by the nose is found back in the mouth as well. The bakery aromas prevail.

A delicious Champagne, easy to taste than we will enjoy of course by the aperitif. We advise you to pair it with a sweet and sour dish such as a veal with pineapple, a duck in orange sauce or even a pork in plum sauce.

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Cellaring

Enjoy now or cellar until 2025

Technical Notes

Terroir: Avize Grand Cru - 100% Chardonnay

Vintage: 2008

Winemaker: Olivier Bonville

Cellarmaster: Patrick Guillaume

Date of bottling: March 2009

Ageing: 10 years

Disgorgement: March 2019

Dosage: 7.5g/L

Product Reviews

"The stunning 2008 season on the lauded slope of Avize is something to behold, captured eloquently by the attentive focus of Olivier Bonville. This tense season in such an enduring terroir relishes all the character and generosity of the house, with crunchy lemon and apple fruit accented with hints of star fruit. A full decade on lees has built wonderfully fine, creamy texture that melds in exacting harmony with the heightened chalk minerality of Avize. Even at 12 years of age, its primary freshness is breathtaking, accented with just the most subtle almond meal complexity. Line, length and purity are sensational. Irresistible now, it will age with confidence for a seemingly indefinite period, when it will evolve into the classic green olive complexity of grand old Avize. It’s definitive Avize, classic 2008 and the epitome of Franck Bonville."

96 Points - Tyson Stelzer

"Full straw-gold colour. The bouquet is fully evolved, seemingly influenced by oak barrel, and tremendously complex. The wine has great amplitude and yet remains taut and focused, elegant and refined, the finish super-dry and very long. There are dried herb, straw notes in the bouquet, with a hint of parsnip. A wonderfully complex, mouthfilling, multi-faceted wine which is totally satisfying and ultra-rewarding. Just magical."

98 Points - Huon Hooke

The Real Review