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Gloria Ferrer Royal Cuvee Brut Sparkling Wine 2001Gloria Ferrer Royal Cuvee Brut Sparkling Wine 2001
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Country: USA
Region: California

WS 93 WE 93 CG 87

The Royal Cuvée is a prestige bottling that showcases the superb quality of the grapes grown on Gloria Ferrer's 335-acre estate vineyard in Carneros. Made only from the first pressing of grapes hand-picked from their vineyards, this classic Brut blend of two-thirds Pinot Noir and one-third Chardonnay offers the delicacy and exuberance of perfectly ripe fruit well-integrated with mature complexities derived from over five years of aging on the yeast. The 2001 vintage gave them an abundant crop that they thinned heavily. After a dry winter, they received just enough rain in February to bring us to normal levels. After a warm day or two in June, temperatures stayed in the 80s and low 90s through the growing season. Harvest was orderly and many vineyard blocks ripened slowly, allowing fruit to ripen fully while maintaining bright acidities.

A complex interplay of subtly nuanced berry and cherry aromas marries with mature yeast characters and a trace of graphite in the nose of this well-developed yet remarkably fresh sparkling wine. The wine holds in exquisite balance full, round, abundant flavors of citrus, ripe apple, spice and toast with vibrant acidity that refreshes the palate throughout an extremely long finish.

Reviews:

"This sparkling wine is fresh and vibrant, yet offers a core of rich, luscious fruit. Aromas of Asian pear, rose water and lemon curd lead to layered flavors of fresh ginger, pippin apple and cinnamon that finish on a showy note. Drink now through 2013. 6,500 cases made. –TF" -Rated 93, Wine Spectator

"Royal Cuvée is usually Gloria Ferrer’s best bubbly, and so it is with this bottling, a worthy followup to the past several vintages. Very finely structured, it shows appealing flavors of cherries, citrus fruits and vanilla, and is so rich, it’s almost like a table wine. Addictively good now. Watch it change as it warms in the glass. — S.H. (12/31/2008)" -Rated 93, Wine Enthusiast

"Smelling as much of wet stones and a faint whiff of caramel as much as it does of defined yeast, this frothy sparkler shows a marked streak of toast on the palate with underpinnings of ripe fruit. Slightly creamy in feel, yet crisp at the finish, it is rounding into its best." -Rated 87, Connoisseur's Guide to California Wines