mardi 28 janvier 2020

Champagne Mailly Grand Cru - Les Echansons Millésime 2007


Guide VERON des Champagnes 2018
(around 85 euros per bottle)
Mythical Champagne

Numbered bottle, sobre and elegant. Luxurious box.

Aspect:

Golden.

Refined bubbles.

Generous tears.

Nose:

Radiant and captivating.

Initially marked by the majority of Pinot Noir (75%) with its candied fragrances of strawberry, cherry, raspberry, blackcurrant and blackberry, highlighted by delicious touches of spices, the nose takes us into delicate notes of white fruits, signatures of the Chardonnay (25%).

Later, the maturity of the Champagne is revealed, heady, with scents warms of brioche and roasted coffee, result of 9 long years of ageing on laths of the bottles, in the deep chalk cellars of the House.

Palate:

Vertiginous purity, definitely the reflection of the rigorous selection of the juices from the first pressing (cuvée), reinforced by the adjusted dosage with only 6 g/L of sugar added at disgorgement.

The mouth becomes a sensual caress, enhanced by the fabulous mineral tension of the chalk of the Grand Cru terroir of Mailly-Champagne.

Lively finish, coupled with a touch of exotic fruits thanks to the fulfilment of the alcoholic fermentation of the base wines at 16°C.

Endless length on the palate.

With this cuvée Les Echansons Millésime 2007, Sébastien Moncuit, cellar master of the Champagne House Mailly Grand Cru, offers us a new unmissable opus of this champagne now emblematic.

To taste from aperitif to meal, with a fried sweetbread, prawns with girolle mushrooms and morels, for example.

Created in 1929 by a handful of audacious wine growers to tackle the economic crisis together in a France still marked by the first world war, the Champagne House Mailly Grand Cru has been resolutely perpetuating the founders’ values. The 480 plots of the 75 hectares vineyard, planted with 75% of Pinot Noir and 25% of Chardonnay, exclusively located in the Grand Cru of Mailly-Champagne, give birth each year to around 500,000 bottles of a range inspired by exceptional Champagnes.

Champagne Mailly Grand Cru
28 Rue de la Libération
51500 Mailly-Champagne
Tel.: +33 (0)3 26 49 41 10