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Score 92/100 · Drink 2020-2026, Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate, Aug 2018

Marguet's 2012 Avize & Cramant Grand Cru is pure Chardonnay fermented in oak and bottled in July 2013 (total production: 1,848 bottles). The yellow-golden colored, low sulfured wine offers a pure, fresh and chalky/limestone bouquet with ripe white fruits and iodine flavors. Mouthfilling yet pure, bone dry and fresh, with great finesse and vitality, this is a lean, pretty linear yet intense and expressive Blanc de Blancs with remarkable grip (perhaps still a bit challenging in its austerity) and lingering salinity. The 2012 is a highly stimulating aperitif, but it should be even greater with seafood and raw saltwater fish as well as poultry with morels or porcini in a cream sauce... The wine was disgorged with zero dosage in May 2017. Tasted May 2018.

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93/100

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92
92/100

Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate

93
93/100

James Suckling

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93 points
James Suckling
Score 93/100 · James Suckling, Jul 2018

Finesse meets personality. These two villages play off each other to good effect with a savory core of stony minerals and lemons. Some deeper, white stone-fruit and light, nutty, autolysis influence at the finish. Subtly complex. Pure chardonnay. Drink or hold.

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Marguet Père & Fils
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Dry

Under the law of Hong Kong, intoxicating liquor must not be sold or supplied to a minor in the course of business. 根據香港法律,不得在業務過程中,向未成年人售賣或供應令人醺醉的酒類 。
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