The current release of non-vintage Brut from L. Aubry Fils is base year 2010, with fortyfive
percent of the blend comprised of reserve wines. The Aubry family has been working on a solera for their reserve wines since...
The current release of non-vintage Brut from L. Aubry Fils is base year 2010, with fortyfive
percent of the blend comprised of reserve wines. The Aubry family has been working on a solera for their reserve wines since the 1998 vintage, with a bit more than half of the reserve
wines in this blend hailing from this solera (and the remainder presumably 2009 juice). The
cépages of the bottling is forty-five percent Pinot Meunier, twenty-five percent each of
Chardonnay and Pinot Noir and five percent of classic, old school grapes like Arbanne and Petit
Meslier, with all the wines fermented in stainless steel and going through full malo. The bouquet
is deep and complex, offering up scents of apple, bread fruit, lovely soil tones, fresh-baked
bread, a hint of menthol and a discreet topnote of lime zest. On the palate the wine is deep, fullbodied
and quite complex, with a fine core, lovely mineral drive, slightly large bubbles, but fine
length and grip on the crisp finish. The fruit tones here play more of a supporting role than in
many other non-vintage Brut bottlings, as the minerality and bread flavors are quite dominant,
but this wine is very nicely balanced and works very well at the table, with its quite low dosage
for a Brut wine. Good juice. 2015-2025+.