Rémi Leroy’s Extra Brut is a grower Champagne from Meurville in the Aube (Côte des Bar), and the current non-vintage release is built primarily on the “powerful, sunny 2022 vintage,” as *Decanter* puts it. It’s positioned as an entry-level cuvée, but the critical consensus is that it overdelivers for the category, with three solid professional scores clustered between 90 and 92.

There is some variation in reported cépage, a common issue with multi-lot NV blends. *Decanter* cites “65% Pinot Noir, 30% Chardonnay, 5% Meunier,” while both Jeb Dunnuck and *Vinous* describe a 2022-based blend with “15% reserve wines” and dosage at “2 grams per liter.” Dunnuck reports the wine was “disgorged in May 2024,” and gives the most ambitious drinking window: “Drink 2025-2040.”

At its best, this Champagne is defined by Pinot-driven fruit and a firmer, mineral-leaning frame. Dunnuck (92 points—an excellent review in this context) highlights “more mineral intensity and depth… crushed tones, savory orange peel, coriander, licorice, and toasted almonds,” calling it “powerful in structure… with driving persistence and mouthwatering length,” and noting it improves with air, revealing “poached golden apples.”

*Decanter* (90) emphasizes approachability and ripeness—“packed with ripe apricot and pear fruit, roasted nuts and sweet raspberry Pinot fragrance”—while also noting it is “straightforward in youthful presence,” with the reserve component adding “a touch of savour and depth.” Antonio Galloni for *Vinous* (90) frames it as immediate-drinking and aromatic, calling it “very pretty, open-knit,” with “dried pear, chamomile, dried flowers, mint and tangerine oil.”

Overall, Rémi Leroy’s Extra Brut is a low-dosage, 2022-centered Champagne that balances ripe fruit, nutty complexity, and a mineral edge, with the best notes pointing to added depth as it opens in the glass.