Wine Spectator: Top 10 Wine Values of 2024
6. NICOLAS FEUILLATTE
Brut Champagne Réserve Exclusive NV 91 points?|?$39?|?France
"Champagne’s leading cooperative, Nicolas Feuillatte, represents one of the region’s most consistent sources of quality and fair prices. As part of an organization encompassing 5,000 vine-growing members, chief winemaker Guillaume Roffiaen has access to fruit from 5,200 acres of vines spread throughout Champagne. Roffiaen and a team of 15 agronomists work with growers on a weekly basis in the vineyards, while also including members in tastings and offering classes in topics such as marketing and English throughout the year. Most winemakers create their introductory non-vintage bottlings, such as Feuillatte’s Réserve Exclusive, by starting with the wines from the newest harvest and later selecting complementary reserve wines to blend. Roffiaen flips the process: He begins by finding interesting reserve wines and then picks the blending wines from the new vintage. It’s an unconventional approach to the construction of the Réserve Exclusive, and it may just be the secret behind its success. 30,000 cases imported."—Alison Napjus
Key Account Manager at Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits
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