Description
Both the NV Champagne Royal Reserve Brut and the Non Dose are the same wines but with different dosages and disgorgements. (This wine was disgorged in March and the Non Dose in January.) Tasted side by side at the estate, both of these two wines pour a bright straw color and are based around the 2020 vintage, which was a warm, dry year. On the nose, the Royal Reserve Brut offers attractive, fresh aromas of ripe raspberries, white peach, tangerine, fresh flowers, and delicate pastry dough. Medium to full-bodied, it has the hallmark intensity one comes to expect from the house and is ripe, fruity, and approachable, with a chalky texture, a spicy mousse, and a good deal of length on the palate. Readers should take note that Philipponnat is going to change the name of this cuvée in 2025 to Reserve Perpetuelle, although the wine will stay the same in terms of process, but the new name is meant to put the emphasis on the extraordinary reserve wine of the house. 8 grams per liter dosage.
