A Few New Champagnes, in Small Quantity
呢幾日如果你嚟過舖頭，應該已經見到又有批新到嘅香檳😉。數量同平時一樣唔多——以下係我哋特別想介紹嘅幾款。
Domaine Nowack Les Arpents Rouges Extra Brut NV來自 Vandières。呢塊地以前係用來釀紅酒🍷。土壤貧瘠，所以葡萄粒細、產量低、濃度高：60% Meunier、40% Chardonnay，以前這地釀紅的底蘊一喝就感覺得到。Helene Charbaut La Charbauterie Premier Cru Brut Nature 2023 雖然仲好年輕，但已經好精準：多汁、果香明顯，青蘋果同熟梨，收結有細緻礦物感。三款葡萄、三個村莊，平均樹齡52年（最老有 103 年）。
Vincent Cuillier Chemin des Rois Brut Nature NV 來自 Chenay 嘅沙質土壤——岩石、鹽分同樹脂感多過明顯果香；係一支適合配餐嘅美食香檳🍽️。Alexandre Filaine Cuvee Speciale Brut NV（2022基酒）係Fabrice Gass於Bollinger工作多年之後嘅個人品牌。Damery葡萄、一部舊式垂直壓榨機、桶內天然酵母發酵——部分舊木桶來自Bollinger。不做蘋果酸乳酸發酵，產量細，層次同質感都更足。Gaspard Brochet 333.c Brut Nature NV 三款葡萄、三個村莊、三個年份。零補糖，成熟又有抓力，是近來越來越多人問起的香檳之一，而家已經幾難搵到支。
其餘幾支，時間都已經在酒裡了。
Francoise Bedel Comme Autrefois Blanc de Noirs Brut 2008是長期陳年的香檳，酒泥接觸13年——果園水果、奶油麵包跟白堊。Duval-Leroy Femme de Champagne Grand Cru 2002係呢批入面最巴閉嘅一支。🤩18年酒泥陳年之後，帶堅果、礦物同絲滑口感。
如果已經睇中邊支，最好趁仲有貨帶返屋企啦。呢批酒至9 月21日可享95折。
If you’ve been in the shop these past few days, you’ll have seen a few new Champagnes land😉. Quantities are small, as usual — here are the bottles we wanted to point out.
Domaine Nowack Les Arpents Rouges Extra Brut NV is a Vandières extra brut from a plot that was historically used to make still red wine🍷. The soils are poor, so the berries stay small, yields stay low, and the intensity is high: 60% Meunier, 40% Chardonnay, with a hint of that red-wine past easy to taste. Helene Charbaut La Charbauterie Premier Cru Brut Nature 2023 is still young, yet precise: juicy and fruit-forward, green apple and ripe pear, with a fine mineral finish. All three grapes, from all three of her villages, off vines averaging 52 years (oldest from 103 years).
Vincent Cuillier Chemin des Rois Brut Nature NV comes from the sandy soils of Chenay — rock, salt and sap more than obvious fruit; a gastronomic Champagne for the table🍽️. Alexandre Filaine Cuvee Speciale Brut NV (2022 base) is Fabrice Gass’s personal label after years at Bollinger. Damery fruit, one old vertical press, native-yeast fermentation in barrels — some from Bollinger. No malolactic, small production, more depth and texture here. Gaspard Brochet 333.c Brut Nature NV takes its name from three grapes, three villages and three vintages. Zero dosage, ripe and gripping; one of the new Champagnes people have been asking for, and very little to go around.
The rest have time behind them.
Francoise Bedel Comme Autrefois Blanc de Noirs Brut 2008 is long-aged champagne with 13 years on the lees — orchard fruit, brioche and chalk. Duval-Leroy Femme de Champagne Grand Cru 2002 is the grand bottle of the group. 🤩18 years on the lees have left it nutty, mineral and silky.
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Domaine Nowack Les Arpents Rouges Extra Brut NV - Bt
HK$690 ▷ HK$655
Historically this site produced still red wine. Berries stay tiny because the soils are poor and stony, so yields are small but concentration is high. A blend of 60% Meunier and 40% Chardonnay, it still bursts with red fruits despite being a white wine. Planted at the foot of the Vandières slope, this single-vineyard cuvée is one of Nowack’s more forward-thinking wines: vinified in small barrels with a mix of spontaneous yeasts and Jura yeasts transported in lees. Old vines of 70–80 years bring red and golden fruit, strength, and lasting salinity. Echoes of red wine are easy to taste.
Helene Charbaut La Charbauterie Premier Cru Brut Nature 2023 (Degorgement 11.2025) - Bt
HK$750 ▷ HK$710
A harmonious blend of the three Champagne grapes from Bisseuil, Avenay Val d’Or and Mareuil-sur-Ay. Vines average 52 years; one Pinot Noir plot is 103 years. Aged 10 months on lees in the barrel. White blossom, green apple, a flicker of brioche. Freshness, structure and silk interlock. Long, mineral, quietly profound. Only 4,103 bottles produced.
Vincent Cuillier Chemin des Rois Brut Nature NV - Bt
HK$800 ▷ HK$760
70% Pinot Noir, 30% Chardonnay: 10 months in used oak, 36 months on lees, almost no dosage. You feel it before you catalogue it. Fruit steps aside; stone, salt and sap take over. Electric minerality runs the length of the palate — tactile, vertical, built for the table, stretching out with unforced nobility.
Alexandre Filaine Cuvee Speciale Brut NV (2022 Base, Disgorged 2025) - Bt
HK$980 ▷ HK$930
Pinot Noir dominant, with Chardonnay and Meunier, ; one harvest plus ~20% reserve wine. Fermented in old Bollinger barrels (the oldest from 1937), 30 months on lees, dosage 5–6 g/L.
Chalk tension and precise acidity meet creamy depth: citrus, green apple, spice, pastry and earth. Ripe yet taut, salty on the finish — old-school, built to drink at table.
Francoise Bedel Cuvee Comme Autrefois Blanc de Noirs Brut 2008 - Bt
HK$1350 ▷ HK$1280
Biodynamic fruit from old Marne Valley vines on clay, silt and limestone marl — Meunier with Chardonnay and Pinot Noir — then 13 years on the lees. The 2008 still has bite. Ripe orchard fruit, citrus peel, damp chalk and sweet ginger meet toasted brioche, hazelnut and a quiet oxidative warmth. Textured, vinous, long — maturity without fatigue.
Gaspard Brochet 333.c Brut Nature NV - Bt
HK$1450 ▷ HK$1375
45% Pinot Noir, 45% Chardonnay, 10% Meunier from Écueil, Sacy and Villers-aux-Noeuds — three villages, three vintages (2017, 2018 & 2019). 30+ months on the lees and see no dosage. Ripe fruit sits on chalk and salt: blossom and green apple at first, then brioche, blackberry and cherry. The palate is creamy and layered, the acidity bright, the finish long and clean
Duval-Leroy Femme de Champagne Grand Cru Millesime 2002 - Bt | RP92
HK$2150 ▷ HK$2040
A blend of 95% Chardonnay and 5% Pinot Noir, the 2002 Brut Femme de Champagne from Duval-Leroy possesses a complex and elegant bouquet of ripe orchard fruits, almonds, pastry and lemon oil intertwined with vanilla pod. Medium to full-bodied, layered and seamless, round and enrobing, it’s charming with a deep core of fruit and a mineral, autolytic finish.
-92, Stephan Reinhardt, The Wine Advocate, March 2024
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