Veuve Clicquot Vintage Brut 2012 750ml
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FRANCE : CHAMPAGNE
Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier
MED-BODIED, MIRABELLE TART, CANDIED CITRUS, ROASTED PEAR, GREEN HAZELNUT, OAK
< style="margin: 0;">Veuve Clicquot has declared only 66 vintages since Madame Clicquot invented the category in 1810, and 2012 nearly didn't make the list. Spring brought rain 60% above average, then frost, then hailstorms that damaged more than a thousand hectares across Champagne. August turned everything around with sustained heat and a clean, dry September, and the small surviving crop came in concentrated and ripe.
Pinot Noir leads at 51%, all from Grand and Premier Cru sites in the Montagne de Reims and the Vallee de la Marne, with Chardonnay at 34% and Meunier at 15%. Eleven percent of the blend was aged in large oak foudres, which is where the fig, mocha and light vanilla come from without the wine ever tasting woody.
Dosage is 8 g/l, generous by current Brut standards and deliberately so. Jasper Morris noted the wine went quiet around 2022 and is only now emerging with toasty development, so this is a good moment to open one. James Suckling 94 pts. Wine & Spirits 94 pts.
< style="margin: 0;">PAIRINGS :
| Smoked scallops | the producer's own pick: smoke meets the grilled, toasted notes |
| Roast quail | dark meat matched to the Pinot Noir weight, acidity still cutting through |
| Comte aged 24 months | nutty and crystalline, mirroring the green hazelnut finish |
