Nicolas Feuillatte: Grande Réserve, Brut
Celebration champagne for my birthday treat in Terry’s garden in Preston Park, Brighton. Nicolas Feuillatte have several reserves, this one “Grande Réserve Brut”, we bought in France and is labelled only in French. It’s a particularly fizzy assemblage of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir as well as the classic champagne varietal Meunier. We found it poured with a pale colour; it tasted refined, mild with flavours of vanilla, maybe melon and just a hint of the sharpness of star-fruit. A pleasant and long after-taste.
We enjoyed the champagne with baked Lemon Sole in a lobster butter sauce, followed by home-made Strawberry Charlotte with Terry’s Greengage digestif, made with fruit from his gage tree (at the back of photo).
Thanks Terry