Guide VERON des Champagnes 2020
(around 23 euros per bottle)
Sober, modern and elegant presentation.
Aspect:
Golden
and bright.
Refined
bubbles.
Fine
bead of bubbles.
Nose:
Radiant,
it slowly asserts its sensuality.
The
Chardonnay establishes itself with delicacy, on scents of citrus fruits, apple
and pear, soon joined by notes of quince, fig and white flowers, highlighted by
an iodized and mentholated breath.
Later,
the well-defined maturity is revealed, result of 8 years of ageing on
laths of the bottles before riddling and disgorgement, with generous touches of
honey and caramel, barely roasted.
Palate:
Heady purity at the
opening, thanks to the selection of the juices from the first pressing (cuvée) during the slow pressing of the
grapes (4 hours on the traditional square press of the house from 1938),
driven by the chalky minerality, vertiginous, characteristic sign of the Grand
Cru terroirs of Cramant, Avize and
Chouilly, in the Côte des Blancs.
The mouth is
unveiled, ample and warm, definitely reinforced by the fulfilment of the
malolactic fermentation of the base wines and by the dosage with 6.5 g/L
of sugar added at disgorgement.
Tasty finish,
supported by an outstanding bitterness.
Endless length on the
palate.
For this Millésime 2009, Denis Petitjean signs a radiant champagne, with
insolent youth and a very good value for money.
To taste from aperitif to meal, with
pan-fried scallops and citrus fruits, for example.
Heirs to 4 generations of wine growers, Denis
Petitjean, his wife Dominique and their daughter Marie, who joined them in
2018, try their hardest to cultivate the 4 hectares vineyard mostly
composed of Chardonnay and mainly established in the Grands Crus of Cramant,
Avize and Chouilly in the Côte des Blancs.
A real desire to reduce the environmental footprint, facilities being
renovated and an accurate and traditional vinification, in small volumes,
enable to produce each year around 25,000 bottles of touching champagnes.
Champagne Petitjean-Pienne
4 allée des bouleaux
51 530 Cramant
Tel.: +33 (0)3 26 57 58 26
Email: petitjean.pienne@wanadoo.fr
