Marie Noelle Ledru, Brut Nature Grand Cru
Marie Noelle Ledru · Champagne › France
Critics Average score from professional wine critics and publications.
92
/100
Reviews
18
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92.2
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96
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Taster #4443
· Oct 18, 2025
88/100
La Fête du Champagne Gala (Avec - Chicago IL) : Small glass, tasted twice an hour+ apart. Too lean for my preferences and too oxidative, despite the very good+ weight and volume.
2006 vintage
Taster #0755
· Oct 13, 2023
95/100
Beautifully open, ripe and pure. This is showing a beautiful golden color, smaller and fewer bubbles. Notes of honey, browned apple, some blood orange, sweet spices, quite some autolytic notes like brioche and browned butter, some vanilla. It‘s medium-full bodied, with medium-high acidity and some lighter bubbles. Full-bodied an structured, but with exellent freshness and just overall very nice aromatics and structure. I love it and this must be one of the best wines I have ever had from Marie-Noelle …
2008 vintage
Taster #8283
· Sep 2, 2023
93/100
Light gold color. Complex node with notes of grilled almonds, chalk, grapefruit, and yeast. Fresh and crisp on the plate with the grapefruit character dominating, backed by a strong mineral finish. Needs a bit of air to come around.
2008 vintage
Taster #8238
· Jan 2, 2023
Brought for Didier caviar & champagne dinner. Tasted blind and hardly recognized it as this bottle was extremely reduced which I never felt in MN wines. Took a while to blow off but behind it you could taste the classic spicy honey and oxidation. Loved it as usual but surprising bottle!
2006 vintage
Taster #8570
· Dec 17, 2022
fennel, almond, powerful with long zip. lovely. reminded me a bit of a Ganevat with bubbles.
2008 vintage
Taster #1722
· Apr 2, 2021
87/100
Last bottle of 4. The previous 3 were very enjoyable, this bottle was showing first signs of oxidation. Already in an oxidative style, the oxidation on top did not suit it well.
2008 vintage
Taster #4365
· Oct 25, 2020
stellar
2008 vintage
Taster #1722
· Aug 22, 2020
93/100
Wow this was very good and better than the previous bottle. Less oxidative. Reminded a bit of the jacquesson style but darker and richer Ambonnay. Might still improve but a fine wine today.
2008 vintage
Taster #0912
· Feb 12, 2020
Bottles drunk with lunch or dinner while in Burgundy; 2/10/2020-2/14/2020 (Burgundy) : This is well done in the leaner and now trendy grower style. I want to like it more but just feel it's too lean and emaciated. Fresh and sufficient as an aperitif. 88-89
2008 vintage
Taster #1078
· Feb 12, 2020
90/100
Burgundy, Day 2 (Beaune, France) : At La Maison du Colombier. It's been a while since I had this wine, and truthfully I think my palate has changed a bit in that time as well. This is still a relatively rich and broad example of Ledru thanks to the concentration and extract here. There's a good amount of white fruit and a decent sappiness, but the lack of dosage gives this an acidic edge that I find a little tough …
2008 vintage
Taster #0912
· Jan 7, 2020
Casual Dinner with Friends (Ada St.) : Showing some age and oxidative and earthy notes. Complex and nuanced in the leaner style. But just feels somewhat emaciated leaving me wanting more fruit and richness.
2008 vintage
Taster #7135
· Sep 10, 2019
90/100
Enjoyable nose of brioche and graham cracker. Fruit is not overpowering. Bit shallow in the mid-palate, but decent finish. Upon first opening the finish had rather tart but not off-putting finish which over time mellowed out some.
2008 vintage
Taster #1722
· Sep 6, 2019
93/100
Lovely. Good intensity and nice smooth mouthfeel. Started off a bit oxidative but 20 min in this evolved into a beautiful spicyness.
2008 vintage
Taster #3217
· Jul 24, 2019
96/100
Nose is spicy, brown (brass) with lots of energy. Ginger. Lemon. Minerals. White and black pepper. Palate has huge lemon. Amazing lift and energy. Ginger some apple and bruised apple ox. Great cut and really grips the palate. Lemon and spice and saline finish. Bright and long and so driven and laser like. Some of my review is potential but really enjoyable now and this probably needs 10-15 and will last a long time. Nose - 5.5/6, Palate - 5.5/6, …
2008 vintage
Taster #8574
· Jul 24, 2019
Yum. Fantastic drive and verve. This is coiled, deep and impressive. Will go for years to come. Wonderful spice, salinity and white fruit here.
2008 vintage
Taster #6535
· Jul 19, 2019
92/100
Light canary gold with a vigorous stream of fine bubbles. Peaches & cream, yellow raspberry, Rainer cherry, merruinge aromas. Slap you in the face zestiness, I wish it developed into something deeper to make it another 1-2 points higher. Lots of citrus, chamomile tea, ginger biscuit.
2008 vintage
Taster #4443
· Apr 25, 2019
90/100
Lots of berry aromas and flavors with some baked apple and toasted brioche. Very rich and powerful fruit with bright acidity that might smack you a little too hard with "Brut Nature," but clearly has good+ weight and textures in its oxidative style.
2006 vintage
Taster #2393
· Dec 28, 2018
As screechy and austere as these are on release but the fruit is deep and brassy in tone, too much so. 1 or 2 people called it oxidized, but not in the sense that it has actual oxidized flavors, it just feels stale.
2008 vintage
Taster #4365
· Dec 23, 2018
Totally sick wine drinking fantastic
2008 vintage
Taster #2500
· Aug 17, 2018
Outstanding wine. Showing very well right now.
2008 vintage
Taster #2955
· Aug 3, 2018
89/100
Disappointing. 85% Pinot Noir. Drinks like a blanc de noir. Heavy with thick bubbles.
2008 vintage
Taster #0912
· Jun 25, 2018
Dinner at The Bristol (The Bristol - Chicago, IL) : I found this relatively compact and shut down right now. Orchard fruit and biscuit nose, that is pleasant enough but the palate is more lean and angular than generous. Lots of upside. Hold.
2008 vintage
Taster #7693
· May 28, 2018
94/100
I dont always drink brut nature, but when I do, it's Ledru. Not much to add from previous notes...this is fantastic.
2008 vintage
Taster #3360
· Dec 26, 2017
Very good. Floral nose, balanced. Very tasty
2008 vintage
Taster #2500
· Aug 31, 2017
94/100
Great stuff. Needs a bit of time but has wonderful raw materials. Serious cut on the palate.
2008 vintage
Taster #9791
· Aug 6, 2017
Buono ma devo prendere atto che gli champagne costosi non fanno per noi. Mi astengo dal punteggio per manifesta ignoranza.
2008 vintage
Taster #0755
· Apr 5, 2017
94/100
After a few minutes in the glass, super aromatic notes of lemon, raspberries, and medium-ripe strawberries, there is also a note of baking spices, beautiful minerality (chalky notes) and some smoke. Also a touch of nuttiness. It's medium-full bodied, dense and powerful but with impeccable texture and freshness, high acidity and bone dry but super long finish. A fantastic, pure and fascinating Brut Nature! I would give this a little more time in bottle though. (94+)
2008 vintage
Taster #1078
· Jun 9, 2016
95/100
Blowout at Formento's (Chicago, IL) : Well, I've been complaining about (the lack of) dosage in many of my champagne notes, and in a night of exceptions, here's another. Holy shit. What an incredible bottle of Champagne. There's white and red fruit on the nose here in spades, along with super-dense and powerful acidity and momentum. White hot, electric, and totally exciting. The acidity burns, but it burns so good...
2008 vintage
Taster #6670
· May 9, 2014
93/100
Similar notes to bottle a few months ago.
2006 vintage
Taster #6670
· Jan 10, 2014
93/100
Nose of bread dough and red apple. Palate is concentrated with great depth. Lively, fresh acidity. Finishes with more red apple and lots of red berry fruit. Still very youthful. Ledru really does Brut Nature so well - there is so much inherent depth and richness that the wines always seem to achieve great balance. This is another excellent example.
2006 vintage