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Meet Roche Lacour, our No.1 bestselling vintage fizz for 20+ years
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Thousands of wines have entered our cellars over the last two decades.
But it takes a wine of incredible popularity (and impeccable quality!) to stick around for the whole length of that time.
And one of the tiny handful of sparkling wines is Roche Lacour.
Tastes may change. Styles come and go. But customers have enjoyed over twenty vintages of this gorgeous French bubbly.
Here’s how it’s stayed our No.1 bestselling vintage fizz for all that time.
Of course, it tastes fantastic. Brimming with ripe peach, pear and citrus, leading to toasty biscuity notes carried along a fine seam of creamy bubbles.
Sounds a lot like Champagne. And there’s a reason for that!
It just happens to be made in exactly the same painstaking, expensive way as Champagne. But costs a fraction as much.
The ‘Traditional Method’ involves putting the wine through a long secondary fermentation in bottle, and ageing the wine for months on its lees – the yeast left over from the first fermentation.
This creates tiny, perfectly formed bubbles and delicious bready notes ...
JUST what you’d expect from fine Champagne.
In fact the luxury sparklings of Limoux, the region where Roche Lacour is made, may even outdate those of Champagne.
It’s said the Benedictine monks of Saint Hilaire mastered sparkling wine methods in 1531. So Limoux had made sparkling wine long before Dom Pérignon was in short trousers.
To this day, they still make fine fizz in this little-known corner of southern France ... wines that rival Champagne for value AND quality.
** DID YOU KNOW?
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It’s possible the first bubblies were made by accident! Wines made over winter would have had fermentation stopped by the cold weather ... before the yeast woke up again in spring.
Indeed, Roche Lacour has a big reputation with our customers.
Have a look at these reviews from across the years.
“For someone who normally drinks Bollinger or Pol Roger, this is just as enjoyable and about a quarter of the price!”
“Are you sure it’s not Champagne? Tastes nicer than most I have ever tried.”
“Fantastic. Nicer than many £40-£50 bottles of Champagne I’ve had.”
It’s another example of that classic next-door story ...
Look past the big, glitzy names and you’ll make incredible discoveries.
And Roche Lacour comes from one of Limoux’s finest cellars, and top sparkling winemakers – Laurent Mingaud, pictured with me right. Because we’ve supported them for so many years, we get the pick the vintage every year ... and always at preferential prices.
No wonder it’s been such a popular choice with customers for so long.
Why not give it a try for yourself ?
Better yet, taste it against your favourite Champagne and see if it stacks up!
You’ve always got our 100% guarantee to fall back on if you’re not convinced.
So how about it?
Champagne-style bubbly, with hundreds of customer endorsements ... for a price that makes the big-brand Champagne houses blush.
I’ll certainly be raising a toast to those Benedictine monks with my next glass!
Tony Laithwaite
Tony Laithwaite CBE - Founder
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You can also call 03330 148 151 to order, or get in touch with your Wine Guide.
Please quote 1000008063 using reference 7020035.
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