WOW, are these other tasting notes boring. Honestly. Are you seeing the formula here?

Fruit x + Soil y + Acid z over degree of breadiness times residual sugar level = bubbles.

How titillating! How inspired! Zzzzzzz.

My notes on the Bruno Paillard Assemblage 2012 vintage champagne are that every time I have it I am reminded of the FIRST time I had it…sitting across the table from a fierce and beautiful sommelier of my acquaintance who ordered it for the table (were I not already smitten, I would certainly have become so then).

She intended it to compliment the Royal Ossetra Caviar we had coming, but the restraint with which this champagne was crafted, the care with which it was aged, and the resulting balance of all the usual “champagne traits” listed above resulted in a wine that carried us all the way through the amuse bouche and early fish courses, right up to the soup. In fact, we went all rogue and ordered a second bottle to squeeze in before entrees, as the price point of this wonderful wine makes it accessible both to the budget-conscious AND the unrepentant drunkards of means (like us).

This 2012 continues to excite, and has become a regular in my home and at my table.

There you go. Tasting notes.