Richard Juhlin : "A Scent of Champagne - 8,000 Champagne Tasted and Rated"
In his excellent new book, Champagne expert Richard Juhlin presents no less than 8,000 Champagne. He has reserved a special treatment to Jacques Diebolt and family in the chapter On a Journey in Champagne.
And, in the huge Producers and their Wines section :
Diebolt-Vallois * * * * (4-star champagne house)
"Several producers in the Cramant village make supremely...
The champagne house Diebolt-Vallois is to be found in Cramant, a village in the "Côte des Blancs", whose chalky soil makes the perfect home for chardonnay vines. It is certainly one of the finest terroirs in the Champagne region and is the realm of "blanc de blancs" champagnes (champagnes made from white grapes - chardonnay).
Diebolt-Vallois champagnes are the progeny of a united family: Jacques Diebolt and Nadia Vallois are helped by ...
The Diebolt-Vallois champagne vineyards cover 11 hectares (26 acres) of which the great majority are in Cramant and Cuis, two villages which are classed as Grand Cru (Great Growth) and Premier Cru (First Growth) respectively. Other plots are at Chouilly (another Grand Cru village) and on the hillsides at Epernay (vineyards called Les Toulettes and Les Hautes Justices). All of these are planted entirely in Chardonnay, the grape used to make bla...
The grapes are hand picked and each plot is picked separately and vinified apart. The harvest is either pressed in a traditional vertical press, or pneumatically. Only the "cuvées" - the juice from the first pressing - are kept for all our blanc de blancs. Depending upon the wine, fermentation is either carried out in thermostatically controlled vats, or in wooden barrels. Malolactic fermentation takes place in all the wines except Fleur de Pa...
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