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Champagne "Réserve Brut", Telmont, Épernay, FR, NV (est. 1912)

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Article code: D 91 Pts.

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Overview

Telmont Réserve Brut NV Champagne shows green apple, citrus, pear, brioche, and floral notes with a creamy mousse and mineral finish. Rated ~90–92 pts, it’s praised for freshness, balance, and elegance—an easy-drinking, refined, versatile Champagne.

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Telmont Réserve Brut NV is a fresh, elegant, and approachable Champagne that blends richness with bright precision. It shows aromas of green apple, citrus zest, pear, brioche, and light floral notes, with a creamy mousse and a clean mineral-driven finish. The palate is lively and balanced, offering orchard fruit, subtle toast, and gentle salinity, making it a versatile aperitif Champagne with solid depth for its category.

Professional reviews generally place it in the 90–92 point range:

Wine Enthusiast: 90 pts — praised for harmony, rounded texture, and drinkability
Decanter: 91 pts — noted for elegance and layered finesse
Wine Spectator: 91 pts — highlighted bright fruit, biscuit notes, and focus
Jeb Dunnuck: 90 pts — described as fruity, generous, and well-balanced

Overall, Telmont Réserve Brut is a refined, modern NV Champagne that emphasizes purity, freshness, and sustainability-driven winemaking. It’s not the most complex in the category, but it consistently delivers polish, balance, and easy enjoyment.

91pts Decanter

A savoury style that flies the flag for elegance. Layered with delicate peach, rosemary, mushroom and white truffle notes. Blend : 43% Chardonnay, 37% Pinot Meunier, 20% Pinot Noir

90pts Jeb Dunnuck

Produced from 53% Meunier, 31% Chardonnay, and the rest Pinot Noir, the NV Champagne Reserve Brut is based on the 2018 vintage (63%) with 12% from 2017, 12% from 2016, 2% from 2015, and the rest from older vintages. Comprising 80% of the house’s production, it pours a youthful yellow and lifts with aromas of quince, almond, white flowers, and a flourish of smoky earth. Generous on the palate, it’s fruity and inviting, with ripe orchard fruit, a gently fluffy mousse, and a fresh, pithy finish. Its lovely custardy and floral finish is long-lasting and takes this up a notch.

Winemaker Notes

Réserve Brut is the result of a subtle marriage of three grape varieties. It is a blend of seven distinct years, together beautifully balanced, a perfect harmony of richness, fruitiness and freshness. A genuine expression of terroir, a tribute to the excellence and singularity of each year’s harvest. Marked by honeysuckle and a hint of vanilla on the nose with an elegant foam. Plentiful in baked fruits: Mirabelle plum with a slight spice on the mid-palate that gives way to a long candied tropical-fruit and brisk mineral finish.

History

The House of Telmont was founded in 1912 by Henri L'hôpital, courageous wine grower, following the Champagne riots of 1911, in the village of Damery, near Epernay. The House is rich in ancestral know-how: four generations of winegrowers bequeathed their strong commitment to their terroir and their grapes to their successors, as well as the art of mastering each stage of wine making. Within their vineyards, important steps had been taken to transition towards organic agriculture. The wines have a unique personality, presence, complexity and maturity, all the while preserving a remarkable ethereality. Telmont’s style is defined by its tension and its freshness. The house enables the terroir to express itself through its champagne, employing its know-how to help reveal the various facets of nature.