Dr. Konstantin Frank Blanc de Blancs 2020 750ml

The 2020 Blanc de Blanc is a broad, rich wine made in an oxidative style that highlights its sweet orchard fruit. Energetic and driven, the warmth of the 2020 growing season makes this feel sunny and enjoyable ripe. This is one of the finest sparkling wines I’ve tasted in the Finger Lakes.

• Country: United States
• Region: New York
• Appellation: Finger Lakes
• Sub Appellation: Keuka Lake
• Size: 750ml
• Alcohol by Vol: 12.0%

Varietal

Champagne Blend

The sparkling wines of Champagne have been revered by wine drinkers for hundreds of years, and even today they maintain their reputation for excellence of flavor and character, and are consistently associated with quality, decadence, and a cause for celebration. Their unique characteristics are partly due to the careful blending of a small number of selected grape varietals, most commonly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. These grapes, blended in fairly equal quantities, give the wines of Champagne their wonderful flavors and aromas, with the Pinot Noir offering length and backbone, and the Chardonnay varietal giving its acidity and dry, biscuity nature. It isn’t unusual to sometimes see Champagne labeled as ‘blanc de blanc’, meaning it is made using only Chardonnay varietal grapes, or ‘blanc de noir’, which is made solely with Pinot Noir.