vendredi 17 janvier 2020

Champagne Guy de Chassey - Blanc de Noirs Extra Brut Premier Cru


Guide VERON des Champagnes 2018
(around 18 euros per bottle)

Original and neat presentation. Elegant cap.

Aspect:

Golden and radiant.

Fine and brilliant bubbles.

Bright limpidity.

Nose:

Sensual and radiant breath, source of pleasure.

The Pinot Noir, exclusive varietal of the Champagne, carefully harvested by hand in 2013, at perfect ripeness, in the Premier Cru terroir of Tauxières-Mutry in the Mountain of Reims, takes us into a whirl of fragrances of red and black fruits and cherry liqueur, delicately mentholated.

Later, the nose opens up with delicious touches of apple and pear, supported by the aromas of caramel and cocoa, gentle expressions of the maturity of the cuvée obtained by 3 years of patient ageing on laths of the bottles, before manual riddling and disgorgement.

Palate:

Pure tension at the opening, obtained by the soft fractionated pressing, typically champenois expertise, but also by the timely stop of the malolactic fermentation of the base wines and by the absence of dosage (no sugar added at disgorgement).

Remarkable presence, highlighted by the soft flavours of apple already perceived at the nose, and driven by the silky effervescence.

Deliciously acidulous finish.

Great length on the palate.

For this Blanc de Noirs Extra Brut Premier Cru, Ingrid Oudart, its producer, put her œnological creativity in the service of the beautiful year 2013, to offer us a touching Champagne and with a good value for money.

To taste from aperitif to meal, with duck slivers and their honey sauce, for example.

From a long line of passionate wine growers Ingrid Oudart now presides over the destiny of the Champagne House Guy de Chassey, to perpetuate in Louvois, Grand Cru of the Mountain of Reims, the champenois traditions and expertises. A vineyard of 9.5 hectares cultivated with care, in the respect of the environment, allows the House to produce with talent around 60,000 bottles per year of a range of Champagnes with personality.

Champagne Guy de Chassey
1 place de la demi-lune
51150 Louvois
Tel.: +33 (0)3 26 57 04 45