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2006 Rare, Champagne
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Start Your Wine Collection with 2006 Rare, Champagne
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Why We're Buying
Step aside, Home Depot. Piper-Heidsieck is the new name in hardware. This revered Champagne house has earned more awards than any winery in the region, including 275 medals over the past century. That includes chief winemaker Régis Camus notching “Sparkling Winemaker of the Year” a jaw-dropping eight times. The 2006 Piper-Heidsieck Rare Brut Millésime only adds to the legacy of this luxury cuvée. It has already racked up gold medals at Mundus Vini, Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, and the International Wine Challenge. The blend features 70 chardonnay and 30 pinot from eight grand cru vineyards that yield a multi-faceted bouquet, palpable tension, and timeless elegance. The Final Sip: In unsurprising news, the most awarded Champagne house racked up more hardware with the release of 2006 Piper-Heidsieck Rare Brut Millésimé.
Critics Scores
Vinous
Piper-Hiedsieck's 2006 Cuvée Rare is racy and polished to the core. Baked apple tart, apricot, lemon confit, vanillin and brioche infuse the 2006 with striking aromatic intensity and creaminess that builds with time in the glass. Sumptuous and forward, the 2006 offers tons of near and medium-term appeal.
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2006 Brut Cuvée Rare is a rich, gourmand rendition of this prestige bottling, unfurling in the glass with a complex bouquet that mingles aromas of yellow orchard fruit, pears and fresh pineapple with nuances of buttered toast, iodine and smoke. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, broad and textural, while remaining fresh and surprisingly tight-knit at the core, concluding with a long and saline finish. There's sufficient structural tension here to promise more than a decade's graceful evolution, and although this is nicely balanced, it's a generous, sun kissed rendition of the Cuvée Rare that reflects the warm vintage.
Wine Spectator
Aromas and flavors of toasted brioche and grilled nut enrich the yellow plum, nectarine and grated ginger notes of this rich and creamy Champagne. Finely woven and beautifully integrated, with a firm backbone of mouthwatering acidity providing precise balance for the lush range of flavor.
Jeb Dunnuck
The flagship release is the 2006 Champagne Rare, a 70/30 split of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir that’s a cellar selection from 8 different Grand Cru vineyards. Tight, backward, and straight-up structured, it offers brilliant notes of stone fruits, toasted brioche, white flowers, and obvious minerality. Needing plenty of air to show at its best, this beauty has a wonderful mid-palate, a racy mousse, and the balance and class to cruise for over two decades in cool cellars.