Perrier-Jouet Fleur de Champagne - $149.99

Wine Details

Price: $149.99
Producer: Perrier-Jouet
Region: Champagne
Varietal: Brut
Container Size: 750 ML
Flavors: bitter, cherry, citrus, earthy, flowers, nutmeg, peach, plum
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Product Description

  • Fine aromas of white-flowers then honey, of nougat and almond cake unveiled by this vintage champagne on tasting, a treat for those fond of delicacies.

Expert Ratings

Ratings   Vintage Source Flavors
Tanzer - 90 Details: ($140) Pale straw with a lively bead. Musky yellow plum and cling peach aromas are complicated by nutmeg and dried flowers. Broad and fleshy, with powerful pit fruit and cherry pit flavors and a slightly bitter citrus pith grip. An earthy, weighty, serious style of Champagne, in need of rich food. (Allied Domecq Wines, Healdsburg, CA) 1999 Tanzer bitter, cherry, citrus, earthy, flowers, nutmeg, peach, plum
CGCW - 92 Details: In a tasting crowded with spectacular wines, the Fleur de Champagne Brut stood out for its depth and energy and for its sweet, restrained fruit suggestive of Chardonnay. Its autolyzed richness and toast are nicely stated without becoming the focus of the wine, and its bubbles are fine-grained and continuous across the palate. All in all, this is a tasty, inviting bubbly for use as a stand-alone aperitif or as an accompaniment to delicately flavored oysters (Kumamotos would be our choice) on the half shell. 1998 CGCW toast
WineEnthusiast - 93 Details: Ripe and ready, with unbridled aromas of pear, apple and tarragon. Toasty and exciting, with plump but serious apple and citrus flavors. Long on the finish, with clear and vital toast. It’s smooth, classy and full of flavor. And it will age nicely for another 5–10 years. Imported by Allied Domecq Wines USA. 1998 WineEnthusiast apple, citrus, pear, toast
WineEnthusiast - 93 Details: Ripe, full, and just hinting at maturity, this remains P-J’s flagship Champagne. It’s poised, elegant and fresh, with signs of nuttiness. A vibrant, joyful wine, it continues to live up to its exuberant bottle. 1998 WineEnthusiast
WineAndSpirits - 90 Details: A youthful 1998, this has dusty scents of limestone along with firm golden apple and white peach flavors. Prominent acidity keeps it compact and racy, a mouthwatering wine for Nantucket Bay scallops. 1998 WineAndSpirits apple, peach
Tastings - 90 Details: Yellow-green hue. Smoky yeast, brioche, and pear aromas follow through on a medium-full palate with good intensity and a lingering smoky finish with drying notes. Robust and well-structured for further aging 1996 Tastings pear, smoky
CGCW - 92 Details: There is a fruity energy that runs across the entire Perrier-Jouet line, and this lovely wine is a full partner in that familial trait. Its aromas are nominally yeasty, and it carries a nice bit of appley, ever so slightly tropical fruit notes that makes it immediately enjoyable. Its bubbles are small, and its finish has a chalky, vibrantly citrusy quality of impressive length. 1996 CGCW yeasty
Tastings - 90 Details: Brilliant straw-yellow with a lively mousse and very fine bubbles. Yeast, citrus and dried flower aromas. Medium-full with a generous mid-palate, this Champagne is all about finesse and subtlety. The acidity is lively and it is drinking lovely now 1995 Tastings
Tastings - 88 Details: Pale yellow hue. Light yeasty and stone fruit aromas follow through on a medium-bodied and frothy palate with a rounded mouthfeel and soft finish. A very smooth and creamy style though a little lacking for complexity 1995 Tastings citrus
CGCW - 92 Details: Universally recognized for its eye-catching flowered bottle based on a hand crafted version created a century ago, this deep and particularly lively bottling is anything but just another pretty face. Its outgoing aromas are fully filled with baked-bread yeastiness and lots of fresh fruit while its like-minded flavors are buoyed by an invigorating streak of lightly lemony acidity. It is explosively frothy but always very fine in bubble and hints at a touch of mineral in its lengthy finish. Younger in character than its years might predict, and showing the extra richness that Champagnes in magnum often achieve, it has many years of steady improvement before it. Magnum 1995 CGCW
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Food Pairings

Category Pairing
Poultry & Eggs Quail
Fruits & Nuts Fruit Salad
Vegetables Risotto, Vegetable, Fruit Salad
Fish or Shellfish Stews and Soups
Herbs & Spices Wasabi
Vegetables Leafy Greens

Wine Terms

Name Value
Champagne A region in France that makes wines from Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier grapes. It is also the name of the world’s most famous sparkling wine. Although many winemakers outside of Europe can legally call their sparkling wine champagne, European Union regulations prevent any other member country from doing so.
France France is the standard bearer for all the world’s wines, with regard to the types of grapes that are used to make wine and with the system of defining and regulating winemaking. Its Appellation d’Origine Controlee, or AOC system, is the legislative model for most other European countries. Most French wines are named after places. The system is hierarchical; generally the smaller and more specific the region for which a wine is named, the higher its rank. There are four possible ranks of French wine, and each is always stated on the label: Appellation Contrôlée (or AOC), Vin Délimité de Qualité Supérieure (or VDQS); Vin de pays, or country wine; and Vin de table. France has five major wine regions, although there are several others that make interesting wines. The three major regions for red wine are Bordeaux, Burgundy, and the Rhone; for white wines, the regions are Burgundy, the Loire and Alsace. Each region specialized in certain grape varieties for its wines, based on climate, soil, and local tradition. Two other significant French wine regions are Provence and Languedoc-Roussillon, both in the south of France. Cahors, in the southwest of the country, produces increasingly good wines.
Brut A French term meaning "crude" or "raw". Used widely for sparkling wines to indicate one that tastes bone dry. Particularly dry wines may also be labelled brut natur(e).
Sparkling Wine Sparkling wines are part of a growing category of bubbly wines.

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