Guide VERON des Champagnes 2019
Mythical champagne
(around 200 euros per bottle)
Sober and seductive bottle.
Aspect:
White gold, brilliant.
Bubbles of a rare finesse.
Fine bead of foam.
Nose:
Captivating aromatic harmony.
Sensual touches of honey and pastries,
characteristic signs of the maturity of the champagne obtained by 4 years of
ageing on laths of the bottles with corks held by a clip.
Later, the Chardonnay slowly asserts its elegance
bright supported by an iodized and mentholated breath.
Palate:
Vertiginous purity, signature of the very
first juices (tête de cuvée) selected
during the pressing of the grapes, transcended by the absence of dosage at
disgorgement.
The mineral energy of the chalk of the two
plots of Avize (« Robards » and « Bionnes ») delights us.
Radiant finish, reinforced by the fulfilment
of the malolactic fermentation of the base wines.
Endless length on the palate.
Exclusively composed of grape (without
exogenous sugar), this cuvée «
Expérience 12 » takes us into a magnificent trip around Chardonnay. It is
revealed by the indigenous yeasts of the terroir,
initially during the alcoholic fermentation of the base wines from 2012 in
demi-muids, and then during the prise de
mousse, in the 2013 harvest period, for which fermenting wines provide
yeasts and grape juices bring the necessary 24g/L of sugar.
To taste from aperitif to meal, with roasted
prawns, tarragon flavour, for example.
From a long line of wine growers, Pascal
Agrapart, assisted by his wife Nathalie, continues his endless quest for the
truth of terroirs. Driven by a deep
respect of soils, ploughed with love and fed with homemade compost, he vinifies
with passion the Chardonnay of each of his 50 plots of old vines, fermented by
the indigenous yeasts of the grapes and aged in oak barrels, to spark the
exception of the Grands Crus of the Côte des Blancs (Avize, Oger, Cramant, and
Oiry) in which is mostly established his 12 hectares vineyard.
Champagne
Agrapart
57 avenue Jean Jaurès
51 190 Avize
Tel.: +33 (0)3 26 57 51 38
Email: info@champagne-agrapart.com
