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Wine Description
The Story
RSRV Blanc de Noirs by Maison Mumm is a blend of Grand Crus Pinots Noir wines sourced from the Montagne de Reims/Verzenay sub-area of Champagne, France.
There are two RSRV wines (a short-hand for ‘reserve’, it seems): 2012 RSRV Grand Cru Blancs de Blancs (100% chardonnay from Cramant), and 2008 RSRV Grand Cru Blanc de Noirs (100% pinot noir from Verzenay).
These are very good, but the blanc de noirs is my favourite because if its richne...
Vintage 2008
2008 -The Champagne vintage set to make history!
A first taste of leading winemakers’ 2008 champagnes reveals a miraculous vintage, bubbling with potential, which – whisper it – might just prove the greatest in living memory.
2008 was not, by any standards, a vintage year for the financial world. And for the greater part of it, 2008 was a pretty poor year for Champagne too: spring was freezing, summer gloomy and overcast. But then, aroun...
