Montgermont Cremant de Bourgogne Blanc de Noirs Brut, Burgundy, France

t is common knowledge to all of you that top-tier examples Cremant de Bourgogne will routinely outperform the flagship NV Brut bottlings of almost any Grande Marque Champagne house.

Proprietor Samuel Montgermont knows this, and he has burst onto the scene out of nowhere as a one-man sparklehorse show on a mission.

He wants you to pop his Cremant de Bourgogne Blanc de Noirs next to a table of boring/mass-produced Clicquot, Mumm, and Moet, only to laugh like this man below:

"I can’t remember ever tasting a Cremant de Bourgogne this good, and it tastes the way all the sparkling-wine advertising looks! What a beautiful pinot noir nose this has! Ripe raspberry fruit with notes of Amalfi lemon and marzipan and a spot-on balance of fruit, creaminess, mousse and freshness that’s so joyful and subtle! I can’t remember when I last said this with so much conviction...Drink now! 94 points." - James Suckling, 11/22

This review is funny. It is also true, though - This is a gorgeous example of Champagne-method French bubbles with all of the stops.

Made from a patchwork of 12 sites in Burgundy, with mostly Pinot Noir and a touch of Gamay, we will all be drinking a LOT of this over the coming months. First tasted in France nearly two years ago, we are beyond happy to have some of this in house.