Disgorged July 2020. A lovely nose of fresh pastries, rose petal and red fruits. It is fine and focused in the mouth, with outstanding depth and power. There’s chalk and tangy fruits and such great drive and energy to the finish. Great Champagne.
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If I could only have one NV rosé, this would be it. And even better, to me, after a few years. We’re drinking the July 2014 disgorgement now, and it’s fantastic.
Looked it up on Wine Searcher. $115. Double the cost of Vilmart Rubis.
Double better?
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I wish this was easier to find in the US. WS shows an avg bottle price >$120 before shipping and taxes. For a NV rose that’s a high price of admission. Would love to try a bottle before committing to a case.
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For me it is. But I find the Vilmart Rubis to be nice to drink, but pretty generic, with apologies to Laura. The Egly rose is a serious champagne, much bigger boned and deeper with more character. It’s what you want with a classic steak tartare, for example. I bought a lot of it back when it was more affordable, so I don’t have to make the decision today. But if I did, I’d rather drink Egly once a month over the Vilmart once a week.
I think it is quite a bit better than the Vilmart.
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Love this wine Jeremy!!!
Hi Sarah, based on your experience, how long would you comfortable be cellaring this wine? The disgorgement available to me contains 60% 2012 I think.
cheers Brodie
Not helpful post, I am now looking at a 6 pack of this. So much for buying less …
It is funny how some wines go in or out of favor. A few years back (5?) Bassins in DC couldn’t move either Egly-Ouriet or Vilmart. Put all of the stock in the close out bin at mark down pricing to get it off the shelf. Didn’t carry either of them for a few years after that. Now they carry both again and it seems the interest is high enough that some are sold pre-arrival.
I bought a good amount of each at close out and still have a few left. Really wish I had cleaned them out instead of leaving some for others.
I’d have no issue with that disgorgement. I’ve never had one I thought was over the hill, though after maybe 10 years they are less fruit forward. The quality of both fruit and winemaking is superb.
Yes, this is an expensive NV, and yes, it’s a lot better than Vilmart NV Rubis. Twice as good is hard to say, but it’s absolutely better by a good margin, enough that I think it’s worth the price.
It’s true that the wines are selling better today, even though they’re more expensive than they were a couple of years ago. It’s an interesting question as to why that occurred, because Egly belongs up there with the best of the best if you want to talk about farming and winemaking, irrespective of style, and has been for three decades. I think that it seemed for a while as if the press cooled on Egly a little, perhaps because it wasn’t “new”; he told me that since I gave the 2008 100/100 in TWA, sales increased by a third, and across the range, not just for the 2008. So perhaps people just needed to be reminded that this stuff is extremely good! Public relations is also not something to which Francis devotes a lot of attention, which is unusual in Champagne: he’s a very cordial host, of course, but it isn’t easy to get an appointment and he’s not going to start opening bottles of Clos Rougeard at random, or pour a vertical over a 3* lunch in Reims—which is just fine by me, because I am more than happy tasting the wines and taking a tour of the vineyards! And on top of that, I think we’re in the middle of a shift where people are finally accepting that the best growers’ wines are as good as anything being made in Champagne and that they will be priced accordingly. For a long time, people acknowledged the quality while balking at the price: just as someone who doesn’t think twice about spending $250 on a bottle of Meursault balks at spending $45 on Mâcon. That’s clearly changing.
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Hi William,
there is some school of thought that Selosse sources his Pinot for his Rosé from Egly. Is this the case?
Cheers
Jeremy
This is not an answer to your question, just a quick somewhat on topic story: when we visited with Francis at Egly, he was telling us how he consistently picks later than everyone in the area. That you can look out over the vineyards near the end of harvest and everyone has picked. Except him and Selosse.
Makes sense since Selosse Rose includes Egly Ambonnay Pinot from fruit exchange.
Yes, and I don’t think it’s a secret!
O.K. I still wont tell anyone though.
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