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Wine Description
The Story
LA COMPLEXITÉ:
This cuvée reveals all the know-how of the Veuve Fourny House in the selection of its old vineyards. Only the exceptional years are used for the Vintage. After more than 5 years in our cellars, the Chardonnay brings out its buttery and toasty notes. For great exceptional moments.
Terroir:
Vertus Premier Cru
Rendzine over chalk
Age of the vines > 60 years
Grape variety:
100 % Chardonnay / 41B
Vinification:
Cuvée (First pressed juices)
7 months on lees without any addition of SO2
Vats 100%, unfiltered
Blending:
1 single year
Ageing:
In bottles
At least 5 years on lees in our cellars
Dosage:
Brut – 5 grams per litre, grape sugar syrup
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.
