Guide VERON des Champagnes 2019
(around 44 euros
per bottle)
Original and refined bottle.
Aspect:
Solar, driven by delicate emerald glints.
Refined effervescence.
Fine bead of bubbles.
Nose:
Captivating aromatic harmony.
Radiant fullness with sensual fragrances of
pastries, and then of cocoa and roasted coffee, characteristic signs of 11
years of patient ageing of the wines in bottles, magnified by the autolysis of
the prise de mousse yeasts.
Later, the Chardonnay (50%), the Pinot Noir
(30%) and the Meunier (20%) gently mingle alternating fragrances of apple,
pear, candied citrus fruits, but also red and black fruits subtly spicy.
Palate:
Life-giving tension at the opening, obtained
by the rigorous selection of the first juices (cuvée), purer, during the soft pressing of the grapes.
The sensual roundness slowly establishes
itself, reinforced by the judicious fulfilment of the malolactic fermentation
of the base wines and by the accurate dosage, with 7 g/L of sugar added at
disgorgement.
Outstanding minerality at the end.
Endless length on the palate.
For this joyful Millésimé 2006, Elisabeth Sarcelet, cellar
master of the Champagne house Castelnau, was able to stage in 2006 the touching
meeting of the great terroirs
following the pure champenois
tradition of blendings: Trépail, Chouilly and Le Mesnil-sur-Oger for the
Chardonnay, Ecueil and Les Riceys for the Pinot Noir, Chamery and Sacy for the Meunier.
To
taste as an aperitif, but especially during a meal, with tagliatelles and
cockles, for example.
Resolutely
forward-looking, around 760 wine growers, united and passionate, put their
expertise in the service of their 900 hectares vineyard planted in 149 of the
best Crus of Champagne. A team of audacious œnologists, around Elisabeth
Sarcelet, creative cellar master, accompanies grapes harvested by hand at
perfect ripeness and pressed with gentleness, to craft each year around 800,000
bottles of great wines from Champagne, ripened for a long time in the cellars
of the Champagne house Castelnau founded in 1916.
Champagne Castelnau
5
rue Gosset
CS
80007
51
724 Reims Cedex
Tel.:
+33 (0)3 26 77 89 00
Email:
commercial@crvc.fr
