Shop / Wine / Sparkling / France / Champagne
Tap or click the photo to see it larger.
Sparkling · France
Rare Millésime 2013
Rare Champagne
Added. View cart
We will email you when a new vintage arrives, when it is back after selling out, or if the price drops.
In-store pickup at 2690 Broadway. Ready in about 2 hours during pickup hours. Orders placed after 5:30 PM (4:30 PM on Sunday) are ready the next day from 10:30 AM (11:30 AM Sunday). Bring a valid photo ID showing you are 21 or older.
About this wine
Rare Millésime 2013 from Rare Champagne is a sparkling wine from Champagne AOC, France. It is made from Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Published figures: 12% alcohol.
The tasting card
- Producer
- Rare Champagne
- Wine
- Rare Millésime
- Vintage
- 2013
- Region
- Champagne, France
- Appellation
- Champagne AOC
- Grapes
- Chardonnay, Pinot Noir
Percentages not confirmed - Sweetness
- Dry, as the bottle's label says
- Farming
- No verified farming claim
- Alcohol
- 12%
- Total acidity
- Not published
- Residual sugar
- Not published
- pH
- Not published
Tasting note
intensely bright, light golden; white flowers, black tea, citrus, kiwi, kumquat; lime blossom, green tea, fern; greengage plums; chestnut honey, sweet spices, vanilla, marzipan; smoky; plump and prolonged aftertaste
From the importer's sheet, in its own words, shortened.
Winemaking
From the US importer's tech sheet for the 2013 vintage. Only what the sheet prints.
- Aged for
- Time aged on lees: 8 years minimum; Time aged with a cork: 1 year minimum
- Made
- Exclusive use of "the cuvée"; Full malolactic fermentation; Dosage: 9g/L
- Blend
- 70% Chardonnay, 30% Pinot Noir
- The importer suggests
- Seafood platter; Roasted scallops, kumquats and pomegranate with coriander, accompanied by an apple, lemon and ginger jus; "Aguachile" seabass tartare, kiwi, cucumber
- The importer's drinking window
- Dazzling until 2040, resplendent thereafter.
Awards
None published.
Champagne: see the Vintage Map
Structure
A bar appears only where the producer published a number. Measured figures come from the producer's technical sheet; the body bar is inferred from alcohol and labelled that way.
12% alcoholinferred Body is estimated from alcohol. It is not a producer measurement.
absent Not measured. No producer tech sheet behind these wines publishes tannin as a number, so we show no bar.
absent No residual sugar figure published.
absent No total acidity figure published.
What the critics said
None on record.
Looking for something we do not stock? Ask for a special order.