K Brooks

9.0

Delicious Cabernet Franc blend with Pat’s meatloaf ($16). — 3 months ago

Devin Brown

9.0

For a non Oaked Chardonnay, great complexity — 2 years ago

Vanessa

9.4

**If interested, I’ve posted more pics of this visit and trip on my Instagram account - check me out @sips_ensemble**

We also had the pleasure to visit Champagne Paul Bara, another family-owned and -managed winery with only 8 employees! 💪 💪

It is a small but high-quality operation, producing approximately 100,000 bottles per year made exclusively from the free run juice. ✨✨✨ Thanks to the likes of @kermitlynchwine , the U.S. is a major exporting market for this wine. 🙌🙌

Paul Bara’s wines are sustainably farmed on numerous vineyard plots located throughout Bouzy, a Grand Cru village within the Montagne de Reims region of Champagne. 🏔 🏔

Bouzy is known especially for its Pinot Noir-driven Champagnes and also for its still red wines, a specialty of the region, called Coteaux Champenois. 🍇🍇

Paul Bara uses mostly stainless steel vessels for its vinification, designed to accentuate the purity of the fruit. They also use subterranean concrete vessels for the Pinot Noir used in rosé blends and for the Coteaux Champenois (still reds). 🥂

On our tour it was fascinating to see bottles being disgorged, dosaged, corked, capped, and caged on a machine in seconds — these are some of the last stages of the Méthode Champenoise. 🤓

We also learned that Paul Bara is a member of the ‘Club Trésors de Champagne’ an association of 28 vignerons formed to promote quality wine growing and winemaking practices and to highlight the beauty of terroir, demonstrating the excellence achievable outside of the major houses whose names are globally renown such as Veuve Cliquot and Moët & Chandon. 👏

Our favorite wine of the tasting was the 2010 Brut Comtesse Marie de France 🇫🇷 made exclusively from Pinot Noir grapes 🍇 It had a richness and abundance of orchard fruit, including baked yellow apple, also toast, bread dough, yeast, and dried white blossom notes, still offering finesse and precision, retaining incredible vibrancy.

We are grateful for our visit to Paul Bara and we look forward to visiting again the future! 🙏❤️ — 3 years ago

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Elizabeth L. Beck

8.9

I’m a Sauvignon blanc kinda girl. But this surprisingly taste like a lite Chardonnay with Sauvignon blanc acidic flavors which I really enjoy! I would drink this anytime. — 7 months ago

John Nelmes

9.0

Crisp and dry perfect with oysters — 3 years ago

Kamall

8.9

$10? Seriously?! Fantastic low alcohol midweek white. Crisp and refreshing. Punches well above its weight. — 3 years ago

Ashley Thomson

9.0

Drinking some birthday wine 😄 — 4 years ago

with Carter

Cary Jones

9.0

Citrus and refreshing — a year ago

Mark S.

8.9

Quite fresh, herb and tropical fruits. Comfortable. Crispy! CP quite good! Touraine Sauvignon Vallee Loire / Les Vignerons des Coteaux Romanais 2021 @1500, Drag, 230910 — a year ago

Bret Small

9.2

Drinks well above its price point, fruity; strawberry, melon—but dry and luscious, bought half a case, wish I had purchased a full case—great summer rose — 3 years ago