Majestic wine is having a special on champagne and sparkling wine so I ordered a mixed case early last week. A friend of mine rates Deutz champagne so I thought I ordered two bottles of that. What I didn't realise until today is that there is a French champagne-maker named Deutz (which is probably what my friend was talking about) who lend their name/expertise to a sparkling wine-maker in New Zealand (which is what I bought). Ah-ha - so this explains why the wine didn't meet my expectations coming off of the recommendation from my friend!!
I bought the Deutz Marlborough Cuvee NV - a blend of chardonnay, pinot noir, and pinot meunier. We drank it on Friday with our dinner of chicken in mango sauce. As my husband said, the wine was substantial, not at all the light fruity wine that it's described as and definitely a wine that needs to be drunk with food rather than a sipping wine. The chardonnay characteristics in the wine really come through, which is good if you're a chardonnay fan, but I'm not. I found the finish of this wine far too heavy, tasting at first of oily nuts (thankfully without the oily mouth-feel) and then lingering as incredibly over-ripe pears. My husband was OK with it, but I didn't love it, and I'm going to have to think carefully about how I serve the second bottle. At least it had really good bubbles.
It will be interesting to compare it with a bottle of the French Deutz champagne if I can track one down...
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