Guide VERON des Champagnes 2015
(approximately 110
euros a bottle)
Mythical Champagne
Last great house of Champagne of Châlons-en-Champagne, founded in 1825, the Champagne Joseph Perrier, family company, was equipped with a modern production tool to better perpetuate the traditional know-how. It relies on its vineyard of 21 hectares (among which 9 hectares at Cumières) to develop and market 700,000 bottles of quality Champagnes every year.
Inimitable presentation: the absolute elegance.
Visual aspect:
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Golden, light and glittering.
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Particularly fine bubbles.
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Delicate bead of bubbles.
Nose:
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Captivating,
it offers an inimitable aromatic landscape, infinite and sensual.
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Moving
fragrances of citrus, butter, white flowers, exotic fruits (apricot, mango and
pineapple) and mint, signatures of the dominant Chardonnay (52%).
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Perfect maturity, with generous scents
of honey, caramel, harmoniously roasted, result of eight years of patient
ageing on laths of the bottles.
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Later, the Pinot Noir is revealing, blooming, with notes
of red fruits (cherry, blackcurrant, raspberry), coupled with delicate spices.
Palate:
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Pure first taste, thanks to the meticulous selection
of the first juices (cuvée), more lively, during pressing, sustained by a
moving minerality, maybe that, particular, of the Chardonnays of the house’s
vineyard in Cumières, but also that of the selected Premier and Grand Crus
(Chouilly, Mailly-Champagne, Cumières, le Mesnil-sur-Oger and Sacy).
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Then the palate opens up on a sensual and warm
roundness, with a rare density.
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Fabulous finish.
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Impressive length on the palate.
With this Joséphine 2004 cuvée, Claude Dervin,
cellar master of the Champagne Joseph-Perrier since 1988, following his father
and his grandfather who begun in 1943, offers a beautiful interpretation of a
2004 year with late harvest.
To taste during a
gastronomic meal, with a just fried Thornback ray, for example.
Champagne Joseph Perrier
69 avenue de Paris
BP 31
51 016 Châlons-en-Champagne
France
Tél. : +33 (0)3 26 68 29 51
Fax : +33 (0)3 26 70 57 16
