Thursday, 5 December 2013
Anatomy of a champagne
There was this booth at this year's Wine Fair promoting Champagne 17/319 a brand of Champagne with each wine made exclusively from grapes harvested at a single Grand Cru village. (The numbers mean 17 Grand Cru villages amongst the total of 319 villages in Champagne. It was a new venture and they had only got this one wine from Mailly. The base wines were from 3 years, 2006 to 2008 and the cepage was 85% Pinot Noir and 15% Chardonnay. The latter was from the 2007 vintage. The Pinot Noir was split across 3 years, 60% (of the total) was from 2008, 15% from 2007 and 10% from 2006.
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