Champagne Diebolt-Vallois Cramant Fleur de Passion, Champagne, France, 2010, 750ml

Diebolt’s tête de cuvée, Fleur de Passion, originates from 60 year-old Grand Cru vines. He vinifies this wine in the old style: barrel-fermented, without malolactic fermentation, unfined and unfiltered. The resulting wine is explosively aromatic with a rich, mineral laced mid-palate and a long, long finish. More than one taster has remarked that drinking Fleur de Passion is like drinking great Meursault with bubbles!