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Grande Reserve

Picked by hand, with selective screening on the bunch. 2/3 Pinot Noir for its personality, its roundness and the typical terroir character and 1/3 Chardonnay for its freshness and its lasting properties.


The vintage

Assembly of the year and grape variety. The amount of assembled wine is twice the volume bottled, the remaining part is kept in tanks as a base to assemble the next. Thus in time, you will find the "homemade taste" perfectly reproduced that characterizes this wine.

Location

Grand Cru from terroirs of Bouzy for more than 95%, Ambonnay and 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 consistituted of fragments of millstones, pebbles and sand mixed with clays of decalcification of millstones, resulting of runoff. Silts of the plate cover with 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.

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 torn but maintained by inter-planting to preserve the diversity of genetic potential.

Vinification

Picked by hand, with selective screening on the bunch. 2/3 Pinot Noir for its personality, its roundness and the typical terroir character and 1/3 Chardonnay for its freshness and its

lasting properties.

Stock in vats and bottles about 6 years.

Dosage: 6 grams per litre.


Pairing: This is a Champagne for all occasions, from “tea time” to dawn.

It can be served as an aperitif, accompany grilled fish and even poultry dishes in sauce.

Characters: small fruits, black currant, cherry, almond roasted, almond, nutty.