mardi 8 octobre 2019

Champagne Duval-Charpentier - Brut Tradition

Guide VERON des Champagnes 2020

 (around 20 euros per bottle)

Original and festive bottle, decorated with the emblem of the brand, As a nod to music.

Aspect:

Gold, brilliant.

Refined bubbles.

Reserved bead of bubbles.

Nose:

Radiant complexity, source of intense pleasure, reinforced by the long period between disgorgement and shipment.

The aromas of nice ripe red and black fruits, signatures of the majority of Pinot Noir (70%) delicately mingle with scents of apple, pear and citrus fruits, characteristic signs of the Chardonnay (30%).

Later, the champagne becomes more confident with gentle touches of honey and pastries, thanks to 4 years of patient ageing of the bottles, on laths, before riddling and disgorgement.

Palate:

Splendid purity at the opening, revelation of the rigorous selection of the very first juices (tête de cuvée) during the pressing of the grapes, underlined by the outstanding minerality.

Improbable balance, adjusted with sensitivity by the timely stop of the malolactic fermentation of the base wines and by the accurate dosage with 8 g/L of grape sugar added at disgorgement.

Beautiful vitality at the end.

Remarkable length on the palate.

For this Brut Tradition, Arnaud Duval arranged the inspired blending of vintages with 75% of wines from 2013 and 25% of reserve wines aged in continuous blending since 2009, to offer us a radiant interpretation of the Grand Cru terroir of Verzenay. 

To taste from aperitif to meal, with a gourmet salad, foie gras and salted gizzards, for example.

Fifth generation of vine growers and third generation of producers of champagnes, Arnaud Duval cultivates with care his 5.5 hectares vineyard certified High Environmental Value and Sustainable Viticulture in Champagne, composed of old plots of vine in the Grand Cru of Verzenay. An attentive viticulture on soils covered with grass and ploughed, without using herbicides, and an accurate and creative vinification, without malolactic fermentation, in his new fermenting room of Sillery, are the bases of a range of joyful champagnes.

Champagne Duval-Charpentier
11, allée Robert Delloye - ZAC Sillery 2
51 500 Sillery
Tel.: +33 (0)6 77 00 11 72
Email: champagne.duval-charpentier@orange.fr