Todd Scurci

9.4

#champagne with De Leaceys — 6 months ago

with Annie

K J

9.5

From the bike tour. Actually not Pommard but a rare red from chassagne Montrachet. Floral and interesting. — 5 years ago

Ron Siegel

9.4

My 1st time with this producer. This was all about finesse & intensity with a very fine mousse showing notes of lemon citrus, mineral with a hint of green apple. Lovely stuff! — 6 years ago

Matt Perlman

9.3

Extremely pretty, and sadly quite hard to find. Silky texture, cherries and strawberries, earth and mineral tones. — 7 years ago

Aaron Tan

9.8

Where do I start with this wine? Perhaps what I didn't like about it. Palate seems unresolved as of now and it didn't deliver as much satisfaction as the nose, but that's just nitpicking. Also a touch too oxidative - hints of sherry notes. However, in a way, this adds complexity to what was already a rich, layered array of aromas. Tasting the Sapience, I think of a warm mille feuille, with baked apples and spices in one layer, salted caramel with nuts in another, chamomile cream with fresh mandarin pieces in the last. This had complexity of the highest order and probably the best champagne I've tasted this year.

Notes: Better to serve it in a bigger format glass. Like Bouchard and Selosse, bubbles dissipates quickly here. The ample use of oak and richness of the wine does make it somewhat table-like. Also, CJ noted that's this could have pulled off as a Selosse Millesime, which I have yet to taste. Mixed info about the wine so will list them all.

From FORCEBERRY on Cellartracker:
This is a brainchild of Benoît Marguet: the world's first "prestige cuvée" by Champagne small growers. Despite labeled under Marguet's name, this wine is not made with Marguet grapes; instead the grapes come from organic producer Georges Laval, who supplied Pienot Meunier (2/3 of the wine) and biodynamic producer David Léclapart, who supplied Chardonnay (1/3 of the wine), all grapes from minimum 1er Cru-level vineyards. The wine is vinified by Benoît Maguet and Hervé Jestin, a man best known as the cellar master of Duval-leroy. The wine is fermented and aged in old barriques for 6 months, after which the wine is bottled and left to age in Marguet's cellars for a minimum of 5 years. This wine is disgorged in September 2012 with a dosage of 3 g/l.

From Planetwine:
Sapience is a collaboration between Benoit Marguet, Benoit Lahaye, Vincent Laval, and David Leclapart. The concept is to craft a Champagne using extreme biodynamic methods. This rendition of Sapience comprises Chardonnay from David Leclapart, and Pinot Meunier from Vincent Laval. The next version will have Pinot Noir from Benoit Lahaye. The wine is made in the cellar of Benoit Marguet, who is one of the most passionate biodynamic winemakers we've encountered. The base wine spends two years aging in Bordeaux barrels before the second fermentation in bottle. More Chardy in blend.

From Pillariwine:

Benoit Marguet partnered with Herve Jestin to create this wine, the first ever certified organic prestige Champagne blended from across the region. They release the same wine with two different labels. One is Sapience/Marguet the other one is Champagne Jestin. Grapes are from the fellows of Hervé Jestin, Vincent Laval(Cumières, PN&PM, Biologic) and David Leclappart(Trépail, CH, Biodynamie). — 9 years ago

with Michelle

Peter van den Besselaar

8.9

Vintage 2015 | Elegance | paired with nut pâté and beetroot | — 3 years ago

K J

9.5

Actually a village level chassange-Montrachet. From the bottles purchased on the bike tour. I could smell this all day long. The candy and the floral. Seems like it was in the $20 range. For the money doesn’t get better — 5 years ago

Scott Collier

9.1

Classic balanced Meursault. — 6 years ago

Jeremy Shanker

Sommelier at RN74

9.4

10/17 disgorgement. Perfect weeknight Champagne — 7 years ago

Icy Liu

9.1

Green apple, good ripeness but not too much. Very long finish with some toastiness. Excellent — 8 years ago

Mackenzie

9.5

Cool ass field blend for u chumps!!! #chumpagnestudy — 10 years ago

Tracy Hall

9.4

Wow! Not too sweet. Nice balance, not too cloying. This is a perfect balance. LaHaye — 11 years ago

Tracy Hall

9.5

Spice and lovely fruit nose. Structured with smooth tannins and a long finish. Beautiful. LaHaye — 11 years ago

Peter Zandbergen

9.4

2018 +2019 — 3 years ago

with Elise

Matt

9.4

Powerful and dense, nicely juxtaposed by the racy chalkiness and snap of its acidity. Some post-disgorgement age has brought great balance and complexity. There’s ripe/baked apple, asian pear, orange peel, white strawberry, fresh dough, chalk, nutmeg, salt, some honey. Can clearly sense the 50/50 CH/PN and their respective terroirs. Kudos for purity given its low-to-no SO2 upbringing, which I find particularly hard to execute in Champagne. 5/2016 disgorgement. — 6 years ago

Cheekypriscilla

10

Beautifully balanced. Would enjoy as a starter or with a burger and steak. So versatile. — 6 years ago

Ian Hamel

9.2

Deg 11/2017 — 7 years ago

Daniel M

8.9

Nose of cherry, dry rose petals, smoke, blood. Well balanced palate with cherry , rose and vanilla, a sheer acid backbone with a long finish with little tart red berries. Lovely — 9 years ago

Kelley Karnes

9.3

Love. A lot of cherry with old world feel. Leather and minerals. Served with spiced rub pork tenderloin. — 11 years ago

Tracy Hall

9.2

2014. Good color and body. Not usually a fan of Pinot Rose, but this is excellent. LaHaye. — 11 years ago