Guide VERON des Champagnes 2018
(around 75
euros per bottle)
Mythical Champagne
Sober and original
bottle. Poetic name.
Aspect:
Gold, brilliant.
Refined bubbles.
Generous tears.
Nose:
Endless and gentle
aromatic harmony.
The majority of
Chardonnay (80%) immediately establishes its elegance with its notes of citrus
fruits, white flowers and exotic fruits, highlighted by a delicate breath
barely spicy, eminent signature of the vinification and ageing for 10 months in
228 litres oak barrels.
The nose becomes a
sensual caress, expression of the fullness of the Champagne obtained by 7 years
of patient ageing of the bottles before riddling and disgorgement.
Palate:
Vertiginous purity at
the opening, thanks to the rigorous selection of the juices from the first
pressing (cœur de cuvée: 1,400 litres
of the 2,050 litres of cuvée),
reinforced by the timely stop of the malolactic fermentation of the base wines.
Remarkable presence,
characteristic sign of the oldest plots of vine of the wine estate (55 years
old), underlined by joyful scents of red and black fruits due to the Pinot Noir
(20%).
Balanced finish
supported by a graceful minerality.
Impressive length on the
palate.
For this cuvée Cœur de Cuvée 2009, Laurent
Champs, cellar master of the Champagne House Vilmart & Cie, put his
œnological sensitivity in the service of the grapes carefully harvested by hand
in 2009, to reveal the soul of the chalky terroir
of Rilly-la-Montagne.
Ideal to accompany your
festive meals, with scallops and duck foie
gras, for example.
Founded in 1890 to
Rilly-la-Montagne, the Champagne House Vilmart & Cie is directed by Laurent
Champs since 1990. Driven by a real desire to reduce the environmental
footprint, certified Ampélos and Haute Valeur Environnementale, it cultivates
with care its 11 hectares vineyard, without chemical fertilisers, free of
herbicides and insecticides. An inspired vinification, in wood (casks and oak
barrels), without malolactic fermentation, gives birth each year to 110,000
bottles of exceptional Champagnes.
Champagne Vilmart & Cie
BP4 - 5 rue des
Gravières
51500 Rilly-la-Montagne
Tel.: +33 (0)3 26 03 40
01
Email:
vilmart@champagnevilmart.com
