Vieille Vigne du Levant Grand Cru Extra-Brut

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Vieille Vigne du Levant Grand Cru Extra-Brut

Made from the grapes on 50 to 75 year-old vines, this champagne boasts a splendid bouquet of sea salt aromas and is mouth-wateringly rich on the palate with mineral notes, before a long, complex and fruity finish. A bottle not to be missed.

Notes :
  • Bettane + Desseauve 18/20
  • Gault & Millau 17/20
  • Parker 93/100
  • La Revue du Vin de France 16,5/ 20

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Wine characteristics

  • Vintage : Vieille Vigne du Levant Grand Cru Extra-Brut
  • Year : 2006
  • Appellation : Champagne Grand Cru Extra-Brut
  • Colour : White
  • Grape types : 100 % Chardonnay
  • Soil : Côte des Blancs
  • Harvest : manual
  • Type of viticulture : biodynamic
  • Alcohol content : 12%
  • Contenance : 75cl

Tasting - Cellaring

  • Appearance : golden robe
  • Nose : toasted, vanilla
  • Mouth : supple, creamy and fresh
  • Serving temperature : 8-10 °C
  • Cellaring : 4 to 5 years
  • Drink from : 2015
  • Winemaking process : fermentation in barrels
  • Maturation : 12 months on the lees then 5 years on racks

Food-matching

  • Food-matching : fish in white butter sauce, hot shellfish

Experts reviews :

  • Bettane + Desseauve

    Rated wine : 18/20
  • Gault & Millau

    Rated wine : 17/20
  • Parker

    Rated wine : 93/100
  • La Revue du Vin de France

    Rated wine : 16,5/ 20

Domain :

This 16-hectare estate (50 plots) stands on the greatest terroirs of the Côte des Blancs: Vertus, Avize, Cramant… and Pierre Larmandier has run it with intelligence and respect for Nature since 2002 in a committed way without any gimmicks.

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The most northerly wine-growing region in France. This makes it ideal for developing sparkling wines that require a grape that is not too ripe so that the freshness of the bubbles is preserved.

The climate in Champagne is affected by two influences: oceanic and continental, which explains why the vintages lack evenness and regularity, depending on whether one or the other is in the ascendancy.

Main regions: Montagne de Reims, Côte des Blancs, Vallée de la Marne and Aube, which is detached, some 75 km to the South.

Most of the wines are sparkling, although there are also some still wines, such as Coteaux Champenois and the rare Les Riceys rosés. On average, total production is 320 million bottles.

The subsoil is mainly limestone, which has allowed hundreds of kilometres of galleries to be burrowed out, which are particularly well-suited to storing wine.

1 white grape (chardonnay) and 2 black grapes (pinot noir and pinot meunier) are used in the wines, some of which are blends, others made from a single grape type, usually chardonnay.

They are given a specific vintage when the production quality justifies it, or else the wines are made from 2 or 3 different years, which in turn add their own characteristics.

Champagne is marketed jointly by the major production houses (80% of exports) and individuals producers.

Best recent vintages: 2012 and 2008.

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