I recently stumbled upon a French Bubbly for just $9.99 at a local wine shop, and I couldn’t wait to share my thoughts with you all! Join me as I discuss the Lealais Blanc de Blanc Brute sparkling wine from Burgundy, made from Chardonnay grapes, offering a unique combination of flavors and techniques.
Made using the Charmat method, which is typically used for Prosecco, this wine provides a delightful marriage of Prosecco and Champagne styles. With notes of lemon, melon, apple, nectarine, and juicy peach, this dry wine is perfect for any occasion. So treat yourself to a French bubbly on a Tuesday evening – you deserve it! Listen in as I take a sip and share my thoughts on this delightful find, and stay tuned for some upcoming Costco wine reviews in the next few days. Cheers!
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Speaker 1
0:03
Hey , welcome , it's Domain Dave , with another cheapwinefightercom podcast for a wine we wrote up on the cheapwinefightercom website , which is what we're doing , what I'm doing . So today we've got a little bit different , a little bit interesting . I went to a local wine shop and I found this French Bubbly 999 . This is not a store brand , this is just straight up And this is also something that this particular wine might not be available in 48 states . It's not something you can go into your local wine shop and guarantee you'll find , but there's something like it will be in there . And that's the important part , because they're all going to be a little bit different and we'll explain why .
Speaker 1
0:54
The Ogamy fairly decent to drink , and what we have here is the Lealais Blanc de Blanc Brute sparkling wine from Burgundy . It's Chardonnay . Chardonnay is the grape of Burgundy . It's also the grape of Champagne , along with Pinot Noir and Pinot Mounais . Champagne is on the northern section of Burgundy , rouge Relay is in the southern and Burgundy is in the different . That's the home of Chardonnay . Now , this wine is 999 for a reason It's because it's not made in the traditional method .
Speaker 1
1:29
They don't make it like Champagne , where they ferment the wine once and they put it in , they bottle it and then they put some Eastern sugar in each bottle to close it up and come back a year and a half later . That's not this . This is Charmat method . Charmat method is Prosecco . They ferment , the grapes , age a little bit and they pour it all into this huge pressurized vat . Throw in a measured amount of Eastern sugar there , crank the seal it up , crank the pressure and in a couple of weeks , a couple of months , the bubbles are incorporated . It's kind of like Champagne is like Renaissance technology and Charmat method is industrial age technology . It's like from 1880 to 1890 . They haven't had a newer system and they've come up something for too long . But that's what that is and it's a little easier . It takes 18 months for Champagne to come to fruition and these come maybe three weeks , month and a half , two months , if you ever wondered what a Prosecco would taste like .
Speaker 1
2:46
And they're made with the glera grape . The one thing about the glera grape that's kind of weird is they don't have just regular glera grapes . Very seldom still wine . I've been told by winemakers in who make Prosecco that's not an interesting still wine . It turns into something when they turn it into bubbly . But Chardonnay is kind of like the king grape when it comes to bubbly , that Pinot Noir . So if you ever wondered what a Prosecco and a Champagne kind of put together would be and for 10 bucks I shouldn't get too over my skis with the Champagne comparisons , but it's that grape , it's a Chardonnay grape . Everybody knows it , they know it's a still wine , they know it in bubbly and it's something a little bit different . In Cava they have the three grapes Peralata , charlo and Macabee All good grapes , but it's always nice to have a Cava with Chardonnay in there because those flavors really do well with sparkling wine . And here we got a French burgundy , charmat Prosecco style bubbly with Chardonnay And it's pretty good .
Speaker 1
4:07
I'm going to take a sip . It's not a hugely complex wine , it's not one of those wines , but let's sip it . But it does taste good . It's got a lemon line thing going on and it has some melon and some lemon and apple , maybe some nectarine , some juicy peach . I mean there's like it's a dry wine . It's a deblonk , deblonk , blonk .
Speaker 1
4:43
Deblonk means white wine from white grapes and it's brute , meaning it's not sweet , though it has a couple of those flavors that are kind of juicy . You know it's nectar sweet , not sugar sweet . Yeah , it's for ten bucks a French bubbly from Burgundy . I can see you can be able to find it everywhere . But you will be able to find French bubblies for ten bucks in most cities and most decent wine shops . And maybe it's not from Burgundy , maybe it's from the lower valley , maybe it's from Longwood or something anywhere that they have good white grapes , that they'll have it there And it's kind of nice .
Speaker 1
5:26
It's a yeah , i'm going to take another sip because it's one of those wines Ten bucks for a French bubbly on a Tuesday afternoon , tuesday evening . You know that's kind of funny , you know . I mean , that's what else do you want out of your wine ? And you know , in that price point you're talking about same old . Same old for versecos or maybe some American kind of ten-buck wines , and here you're getting something unique and different and French . So that's it for me . Domaine Dave . That was the Lealais Blanc du Blanc Brute . We've got a couple more wines coming . I got a couple of Costco things happening . We'll do that in the next few days And that's it for me . Stay warm , stay safe , and I will be talking to everybody in a couple of days . Like us , we like your podcast , we will . It does help . Thanks a lot , bye .
