This vibrant version shows a range of toasted brioche, baked cherry, crystalized honey, grated ginger and coconut flavors, remaining light-footed and lively throughout. Beautifully balanced, with a lasting, mouthwatering finish. Disgorged 2014. Drink now through 2020. 5,000 cases imported.
Review Date: 31st October 2016
One of the best value grandes marques on the market, a blend of 60 crus, with roughly a third each of Pinot Noir, Meunier and Chardonnay, vinified individually by cru and variety, in stainless steel. Compared to other grandes marques, it is high (40%) in reserve wines, averaging 10 years old and dating back to 1990. Quite a floral style with lemon sherbet intensity and bready, leesy characters. It has great concentration and complexity, with a lovely grip of acidity on the finish.
Drinking Window: 2020 - 2025
Reviewer Name: Christelle Guibert
Review Date: 20th July 2018
Based on the 2014 vintage, complemented by fully 40% old reserve wines, the new release of Charles Heidsieck's NV Brut Réserve was disgorged earlier this year. It's showing very well, opening up in the glass with notes of green apple, dried white flowers, pear, candied peel and walnuts. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, deep and layered, with a textural attack and a racier, tighter-knit core than either the 2012- or 2010-base renditions, displaying good concentration and underlying richness. This is a bottling that continues to punch above its weight and which both merits and rewards a few years in the cellar before opening.
Drinking Window: 2020 - 2035
Reviewer Name: William Kelley
Review Date: 30th August 2019
(made from roughly one-third each Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier; 11 g/l dosage; disgorged in 2013 after five years on its yeasts): Bright yellow. Potent smoke-tinged orchard and pit fruit aromas are complemented by notes of tarragon, toasted brioche and pungent flowers. Fleshy and broad on entry, then tighter in the mid-palate, offering juicy pear and nectarine flavors and a bracing kick of chalky minerals. This rich yet lively Champagne finishes with very good thrust and length and repeating smokiness.
Reviewer Name: Josh Raynolds
Review Date: 1st January 2015
40% Chardonnay, 40% Pinot Noir, 20% Pinot Meunier. Dosage 11.2 g/l. Wonderfully vinous and flavoursome – apple, butter, sweet spice, smooth and luxurious and expressive, finishing with loads of yeasty, Marmite-type autolysis.
Drinking Window: 2019 - 2022
Review Date: 30th May 2018
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- Year NV
- Colour White
- Country France
- Region Champagne
- Sub Region NA
- Designation
- Classification
- Pack Size 6x75cl
- ABV 12°
- Drinking Window 2020 - 2035
- Drinking Recommendation Drinking Now, will improve
- LWIN 108192310000600750
- Reviews (5)
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93 Wine Spectator
This vibrant version shows a range of toasted brioche, baked cherry, crystalized honey, grated ginger and coconut flavors, remaining light-footed and lively throughout. Beautifully balanced, with a lasting, mouthwatering finish. Disgorged 2014. Drink now through 2020. 5,000 cases imported.
Review Date: 31st October 2016
93 DecanterOne of the best value grandes marques on the market, a blend of 60 crus, with roughly a third each of Pinot Noir, Meunier and Chardonnay, vinified individually by cru and variety, in stainless steel. Compared to other grandes marques, it is high (40%) in reserve wines, averaging 10 years old and dating back to 1990. Quite a floral style with lemon sherbet intensity and bready, leesy characters. It has great concentration and complexity, with a lovely grip of acidity on the finish.
Drinking Window: 2020 - 2025
Reviewer Name: Christelle Guibert
Review Date: 20th July 2018
92+ Wine AdvocateBased on the 2014 vintage, complemented by fully 40% old reserve wines, the new release of Charles Heidsieck's NV Brut Réserve was disgorged earlier this year. It's showing very well, opening up in the glass with notes of green apple, dried white flowers, pear, candied peel and walnuts. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, deep and layered, with a textural attack and a racier, tighter-knit core than either the 2012- or 2010-base renditions, displaying good concentration and underlying richness. This is a bottling that continues to punch above its weight and which both merits and rewards a few years in the cellar before opening.
Drinking Window: 2020 - 2035
Reviewer Name: William Kelley
Review Date: 30th August 2019
91 Vinous(made from roughly one-third each Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier; 11 g/l dosage; disgorged in 2013 after five years on its yeasts): Bright yellow. Potent smoke-tinged orchard and pit fruit aromas are complemented by notes of tarragon, toasted brioche and pungent flowers. Fleshy and broad on entry, then tighter in the mid-palate, offering juicy pear and nectarine flavors and a bracing kick of chalky minerals. This rich yet lively Champagne finishes with very good thrust and length and repeating smokiness.
Reviewer Name: Josh Raynolds
Review Date: 1st January 2015
17 Jancis Robinson40% Chardonnay, 40% Pinot Noir, 20% Pinot Meunier. Dosage 11.2 g/l. Wonderfully vinous and flavoursome – apple, butter, sweet spice, smooth and luxurious and expressive, finishing with loads of yeasty, Marmite-type autolysis.
Drinking Window: 2019 - 2022
Review Date: 30th May 2018
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Charles Heidsieck is the Champagne house for those in-the-know. Ultra-stylish in terms of both their wine and their appearance, there is something about Heidsieck that sings class. Their wines are renowned for their richness and intensity and the flagship wines stand shoulder to shoulder with the greatest prestiges cuvées in Champagne. Greedily sought by collectors and discerning drinkers alike, Charles Heidsieck is one to seek out.
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