Vanessa

9.3

Happy International Women’s Day!!!!!  Today and every day! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

To celebrate we’re raising a glass with the Oudiette x Filles ‘Les Sablonnières’ Blanc de Noirs, Extra Brut Champagne (NV).🥂🥂

This is a small batch, third-generation woman-owned and -run estate with vigneronne Margot Laurent at the helm (in terms of winemaking) arm-in-arm 💪🏻 with her sister Charlotte and their mother Florence.

It’s made with 100% pinot noir 🍇 , including pinot noir droit (a small-berried Pinot Noir clone), and aged 36 mos, lending complexity and richness.  Aging well beyond the minimum requirements for a non-vintage Champagne. 🕰️

A majority of the primary fermentation occurred in Burgundy oak barrels, subject to ten months aging (élevage) in the same oak barrels, also undergoing bâtonnage.

Oudiette x Filles practices organic farming in its vineyards south of Épernay near the village of Beaunay in the northern part of the Côte des Blancs.

In appearance this wine is pale gold with a fine-beaded and persistent mousse. Aromas and flavors include just-ripe green pear, lemon curd, apple, starfruit, citrus blossom, brioche, almond paste, marzipan, toast, biscuit. The palate is dry with a rich and creamy mouthfeel balanced by vibrantly high-toned fruit and a long, elegant finish. It’s absolutely delicious. — 4 months ago

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Gabriella Landgraf-Neuhaus

9.8

The Cab Sav is not on here, but it’s pretty delicious. It opens lightly and as it oxidizes becomes more full bodied but still not as heavy as a lot of other Cab Savs — 8 months ago

Elizabeth Petitt

9.5

Refreshing with a sweet raspberry flavor — 5 years ago

S.S. Mandani

9.7

Favorite beer hands down. Haven’t found one that beats it. Originally had it on a ski trip in Vermont. Then, again, at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference again in Vermont.

Stopped by Carmine’s Beer Store in the West Village and when I saw they carried Frost, I went haywire. Short circuited.

Drank this in earshot (more like noseshot) of bae and she said it smelled like lychee. Well, slap my ass, and call me boozy, she’s right as rice. Lychee, mango, smooth tropical breezes of passionfruit, supple waves of velvety balanced hops and fruit. Double Ponyboy you have my heart and my liver. Odin, have mercy. — 2 years ago

Julia Geisler

8.9

Summer cocktail disguised as a wine. This is actually made with Riesling and I was surprised how much I enjoyed this. Very fruit but not too sweet to consider it a dessert wine.
The setting was idyllic: sitting on the winery’s porch with a summer breeze with the mountains in the distance. I brought a bottle back for the office to try so it’ll be interesting to see if this still holds up without the countryside surroundings. — 6 years ago