Millésime 2004 - Grand Cru
few privileged enthusiasts, the palate clean and free of any
other food. Perfect now, it will age beautifully to provide a
rich, succulent wine.
Presentation
Picked by hand, with selective screening on the bunch. Half
Pinot Noir for its personality, its roundness and the typical
terroir character and half Chardonnay for its freshness and
particularly its lasting properties. The selection is made as a
priority from low-yield vines to achieve an accurate regional
quality. Dosage: 6 grams per litre.
The vintage
A relatively mild winter and succesive summer temperatures and thunderstorms throughout the flowering to mark finally the dry harvest vintage. We took the rsique to start the harvest while other viticulturists had finish, to reach full maturity. This year is considered "average" for the uninitiated, however with this late picking, it promised a rich and complex wine since birth.
Location
Grand Cru from terroirs of BOUZY, AMBONNAY et LOUVOIS
Terroir
Bouzy is a village of Grande Montagne de Reims, especially of the "Côte des Noirs (Coast of Blacks)" because stronghold of Pinot Noir.
On its slopes, vine grows on soils consist of fragments of millstones, pebbles and sand mixed with clays of decalcification of millstones, resulting of runoff. Silts of the plate cover by a fertile coat the tops of hills, and old alluvium formed of sand, gravel and chalk pebbles.
It is well suited to the Champagne wine. Usually light in color, it provides in the day in favor of the vine a good reflection of the warmth and light. Rather thin, it is conducive to quality
The basement is chalk bélemnites upper Santonian (Campanian) and chalk micrasters Lower Senonian of the Marne.
Deposed by the seas of the end of the Mesozoic era, there was a few hundred million years the chalk of Cretaceous is to 200 meters deep. It absorbs heat and return it. She did the same with water to regulate the absorption by vines that plunges its roots up to 3-4 meters deep.
The climate is generally that of the Paris Basin, with generally mild winters, spring uncertain, hot summers and cool autumns but usually quite beautiful.
In the vineyard
Vines grown on the principle of sustainable viticulture, using organic fertilizers, natural weed and other techniques to preserve the best of nature. The old vines are no longer maintained but torn by inter-planting to maintain the diversity of genetic potential.
Winemaking
Picked by hand, with selective screening on the bunch. Half
Pinot Noir for its personality, its roundness and the typical
terroir character and half Chardonnay for its freshness and
particularly its lasting properties. The selection is made as a
priority from low-yield vines to achieve an accurate regional
quality. Dosage: 6 grams per litre.
Varietals
Chardonnay : 50%
Pinot Noir : 50%
Specifications
Alcohol content : 12.5% % vol.
Production volume : 3 600 bottles
Age of vines : > 35 years years old
Serving
Serving temperature: 12 ° C - Potential: now to 5 years
Tasting
Aspect : fine bubbles, persistent mousse, bright golden colour. - Bouquet: initially discreet, its finesse expands into floral
notes, hay and fern, ending with morello cherry. Slightly
honeyed. - Palate : clean, lively attack, well-balanced, with a lingering
taste worthy of the greatest crus.
Food pairings
Fish with cream, fish terrines, raw fish - Shellfishes, grilled shellfish, seafood, shellfish in sauce, shrimps and prawns, cassolette of shellfish, fresh shellfish.
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