The place held: the Restaurant Budo-ya located in OAG House - the German Cultural Institute.
Theme: Campagne & Sparkling
Sellected by: Monty

We tasted five selected Champagne and one sparkling wine. We reduced the number of wines to six from regular nine so that we were able to look for higher quality this time as you can see in the list below.

* “R.D.” means recently disgorged – meaning that the wine has spent more time with, or on the sediment from the second fermentation.
* Wine “A” was the number one choice in the blind tasting done by Brutus magazine with Japanese sommeliers – but I did not know you read Brutus...

No

Wine

Year

Grape

Region

Yen

Shop

Points

Rank

1s

2s

Ls

A

Bereche et Fils, Reflet d' Antan Brut

Ch./PinotNoir/PinotMeunier + vin de reserve(20%)

Champagne

7,900

46

2

5

1

2

B

Deutz Brut Rose

NV

-

Champagne

9,000

55

5

0

2

1

C

Bollonger R.D. Extra Brut

1996

-

Champagne

25,000

52

4

2

4

5

D

Schramsberg Rose

2003

Ch./PinotNoir/PinotMeunier

California

5,250

67

6

1

3

6

E

Laherte Freres – Brut Millesime

2000

Ch.85%, PinotMeunier15%

Champagne

6,800

50

3

3

1

0

F

Deutz Blanc de Blanc

1998

Chardonnay 100%

Champagne

13,000

45

1

4

4

1