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La Cuvée 17 – Brut

1 carton of 6 x 75 cl so £28 per bottle

Grapes: 34% Meunier / 33% Chardonnay & 33% Pinot Noir
Non vintage with 30 to 60% reserve wine
Vinification: 100% Stainless steel
Malo-Lactic : Partial
Champagne bottle with DIAM cork ( 0% T CA = no cork taste)
Disgorgment: BRUT (usually 8.8g but depends on age/acidity ratio of the wine)
Vineyards: Coteaux Sud Epernay / Villers sous Châtillons / Sermiers
Soil: 80% Clay – 20% Chalk

Food / Champagne matching suggestions
Food suggestions Classic as an aperitive bubbly – any non spicy seafood dishes – Excellent with a double or trebble cream cheese ( Chaource…) . This fine and fruity champagne is versatile and will complem ent most fine dishes
Pristine bouquet of vibrant lemons and strawberry hull opens out into a palate of fantastic , linear freshness with great persistance

International Recognition
6 Awards: 1 Trophée; 2 Argent & 3 Récommendé
The Best Champagne you never heard about * * * * * Forbes NYC
93/100 Best Champagnes of the Year Under $60… Champagne Guide Australia
90/100 Impressive wine for this price … pronounced fruit on the nose and a flinty dry finish … West Australian

L’EXTRA-BRUT

1 carton of 6 x 75 cl so £35 per bottle

Grapes: 50% Meunier / 25% Chardonnay & 25% Pinot Noir
Non vintage with 45 to 80% reserve wine
Vinification: 95% Stainless steel & 5% barrels
Malo-Lactic: Partial
Champagne bottle with DIAM cork ( 0% T CA = no cork taste)
Disgorgment : EXTRA BRUT ( usually 2.2g but depends on age/acidity ratio of the wine)
Vineyards: Montagne de Reims , Chigny Les Roses , Ludes , Rilly , Taissy
Soil : 70% Clay – 30% Chalk

Food / Champagne Matchings
Food suggestions Aperitif bubbly for cham pagne connoisseurs – Spicy dishes . Gilles Dumangin specifically recommends it for tasting with Thai food
This very dry Champagne is elegant and yeasty with a lovely mousse and a fine, tapering finish .

International Recognition
2 Awards: 1 Bronze & 1 recommandé
The Wine List (UK) This is another bone dry wine […]. Clean as a whistle, […] this is the perfect apéritif wine by Matthew Jukes
90/100 Wine Enthusiast (US) Well on the dry side of brut, this wine pushes acidity and the freshest citrus along with an apple-skin texture.
Bob Campbell Wine Reviews (NZ) Richer and more complex with more bready lees character and less fruit. Perfectly dry but nicely balanced.
Coup de Coeur Guide Revel (CA)
Champagne Guide (AUS) 93 points: Best Champagne under $60

LE ROSE – EXTRA-BRUT

1 carton of 6 x 75 cl so £42 per bottle

Grapes: 13% Meunier (as red wine) / 49% Chardonnay & 38% Pinot Noir
Non vintage with 16 to 75% reserve wine
Vinification: 87% Stainless steel & 13% barrels
Malo-Lactic: partial
Champagne bottle with DIAM cork (0% TCA = no cork taste)
Disgorgment: EXTRA BRUT (usually 4.4g but depends on age/acidity ratio of the wine)
Vineyards: Montagne de Reims, Chigny Les Roses, Ludes, Rilly, Taissy
Soil: 30% Clay – 70% Chalk

Food / Champagne Matching suggestions
Food suggestions Poultry or fish in creamy sauce. This fine and fruity champagne is recommended for weddings or any party in need of celebrating.  Crisp, very dry wine that projects its red berry acidity right to the front.
Certainly for food, it is textured with a steely core (Wine Enthusiast)

International Recognition
16 Awards: 5 Or (Bordeaux/Epernay); 6 Argent; 4 Bronze & 1 recommandé
Decanter (UK) Best Sparkling Wine by Steven Spurrier
Champagne Guide (AUS) 94 points: Best Champagne under $60
Hospitality & Thirst (NZ) Show delicate strawberry and rose aromas, quite feminine, on the palate delicious – fragrant, full & rich, even satisfying; a long feminine and subtle finish; a beautiful champagne

LE VINTAGE 2004 – EXTRA-BRUT

1 carton of 6 x 75 cl so £75 per bottle

Grapes: 54% Chardonnay & 46% Pinot Noir
Vintage only produced in the best vintages
Vinification: 100% Stainless steel
Malo-Lactic: Full until 2010 then none from 2012 vintage
Champagne bottle with DIAM cork (0% TCA = no cork taste)
Disgorgment : EXTRA-BRUT (usually 4.4g but depends on age/acidity ratio of the wine)
Vineyards : Montagne de Reims: Rilly la Montagne (Cornes de Cerf) & Taissy (Monthouzons)
Soil: 100% Chalk

Food / Champagne matching suggestions

Food suggestions This delicate & feminine champagne is good with seafood or oysters, but will excel on its own for a wonderful aperitif.
Rich, creamy wine with an impressive ethereal lightness. Wonderfully pure. Chalk, toast and hazelnut. Lovely acidity – not hard, accessible but gives backbone

International recognition
Sur tout les millésimés (pas juste le 2009 :-))
James Suckling (US) 95/100- Wine Enthusiast (US) 93/100 – Cellars Selection
The New Zeland Herald (NZ) From a vintage bursting with flavour this is drinking well now but will continue to develop. Its is a light, bright and fruity, a classic… by John Hawkesby
Bob Campbell Wine Reviews (NZ) Rich, creamy wine with an impressive ethereal lightness. Wonderfully pure. Chalk, toast and hazelnut. Lovely acidity – not hard, accessible but gives backbone
Champagne Guide (OZ) 91/100 bouquet is defined by lemon, with hints of honey and a note of orange. The palate adds butterscotch and ripe peach fruit, leading off clean and then quickly becoming savoury & secondary