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Sometimes life surprises you - after tasting over 8000 champagnes you easily think that there are no surprises left, but as so many times before I was wrong - believe me, it was a real and very positive surprise to taste my first ever Champagne from vintage 1987 - vintage which is not "existing"-
1987 was a really poor vintage, Generally speaking, the rainy year produced a lean harvest, and it was impossible to produce good vintage wines. This year, the area’s interest group CIVC introduced new regulations to improve the quality of champagnes. The wine growers were paid bigger compensations when selling grapes and not wine. For the producers, however, it was made so that buying ready wine was more expensive than from the grapes themselves. This year was the gap year of the decade. It was still not enough to save the weak 1987 harvest year.
The spring was exceptionally rainy, and the summer continued in the same vein. In between, however, there was a suitable moment for inflorescences in June. In August, three more good weeks were still experienced before the fall rains and mold problems. A few announced they had made vintage wine, but in general, the vintage was really modest and was used solely for non-vintage wines.
Well, the Adam-Garnotel Brut Millésimé 1987 was beautifully balanced, fresh and very pleasant to drink, nothing like the 1987 Champagnes should be. In many ways a stunning champagne and rare for sure:)
Vintage 1987
Champagne: Generally speaking, the rainy year produced a meager harvest, and it was impossible to produce good vintage wines. This year, the region's interest group, CIVC, introduced new regulations to improve the quality of champagnes. Winegrowers received greater compensation when they sold grapes and not wine. For producers, however, it was made so that purchasing ready wine was more expensive than the grapes themselves. This year has been the sabbatical of the decade. It was still not enough to save the poor harvest year of 1987.
The spring was exceptionally rainy and the summer continued in the same vein. In between, however, there was a favorable time for inflorescences in June. In August, there were three more good weeks before the fall rains and mold problems. A few announced that they had made vintage wine, but in general the vintage was really modest and was used only for non-vintage wines.
