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  • Food Pairing

    Seafood, Salads & Consommes

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The Story

The Brut Millésime is only made in truly exceptional years. Made from a pinot-heavy blend in our nine favourite villages (mostly Ludes, Chigny-les-Roses and Rilly-la-Montagne), the Brut Millésime is a very dry champagne which requires long ageing in the cellar to preserve and express its unique character. This champagne is a pure reflection of complexity and harmony.

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Vintage 1996

Up to this point 1996 has been considered a fantastic vintage which produced classic wines; the best since 1990. A long, dry summer produced grapes of record ripeness with record acidity. Some, including myself, question how the 1996s are aging. The wines are generally characterized by a distinctive rather lemony acidity and very good attack, but some wines now seem terribly austere, while others already seem dangerously short of fruit. None of the subsequent vintages are quite as distinctive as 1996, which in the more successful cases should almost certainly be drunk after the 1999s.

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Brilliantly well-structured, balanced wine, where all three grape types come together from the outset to make an interesting, harmonious unit. Already, as a newly released baby, it has a polished plumpness and a soft, almost chewable dark fruit. Acidity and elasticity play second fiddle but are absolutely present.
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Origin

Chigny-les-Roses, Champagne

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