Guide VERON des Champagnes 2020
(around 59 euros per bottle)
Bright presentation.
Aspect:
Golden.
Refined
bubbles.
Delicate
bead of bubbles.
Nose:
Heady
complexity.
Joyful
maturity with notes of caramel and pastries, deliciously roasted,
characteristic sign of the 5 years of ageing on laths of the bottles, before
manual riddling and disgorgement.
Later,
the Chardonnay, exclusive varietal, is gently unveiled with elegant scents of
candied citrus fruits, apple, pear and white flowers, driven by an iodized
breath.
Palate:
Vertiginous
tension of the chalk of the old plots (more than 50 years old) from Avize (« Le
Champ Bouton ») and Cramant (« Les Bionnes »), enhanced by the
selection of the very first juices (tête
de cuvée) during the pressing of the grapes.
Later,
the champagne becomes caressing, reinforced by the fulfilment of the malolactic
fermentation of the base wines, part of which is vinified in demi-muids,
highlighted by the adjusted dosage with 3 g/L of sugar added at disgorgement.
Lively
finish, coupled with an outstanding salinity.
Impressive
length on the palate.
With
this Champagne Extra Brut 2012 Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru - Minéral collection,
Pascal Agrapart and his son Ambroise were able to reveal with accuracy the
minerality of its nobles origins and sign a great champagne.
To
taste as an aperitif or during a meal, with a grilled cod-fish loin, in potato
crust, for example.
In
Avize, Pascal Agrapart and his wife Nathalie were able to convey their passion
for Chardonnay and Grands Crus of the Côte des Blancs (Avize, Oger, Cramant and
Oiry), inherited from 3 generations of wine growers, to their son Ambroise,
œnologist, who joined the wine estate. The 50 plots of old vines of the 12
hectares vineyard are ploughed with care and enriched with a homemade compost
to better respect the life of the soil, and then vinified separately, gently,
with indigenous yeasts, without filtration nor clarification, to let burst out
the force of the terroirs.
Champagne Agrapart
57 avenue Jean Jaurès
51 190 Avize
Tel.: +33 (0)3 26 57 51 38
Email: info@champagne-agrapart.com
