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Wine Description
The Story
A glittering, golden Champagne, twinkling with amber highlights and an endless cascade of shimmering, festive bubbles.
The wine shows depth and refinement on the nose, revealing an exquisite bouquet of perfectly ripe fruit (pears and Mirabelle plums) and crystallized citrus (lemons and mandarins) blended with delicate hints of almonds, sweet pastries, honey and caramel.
These flavours linger deliciously on the palate, highlighting the wine's...
Wine Information
Place of origin
Mailly Champagne, vineyard classified as Grand Cru.
Composition
Pinot Noir 75% - Chardonnay 25%.
Winemaking process
Manual picking ; whole cluster pressing. Alcoholic fermentation at 16°C. Malolactic fermentation in temperature-controlled stainless- steel tanks. Ageing on laths in traditional chalk cellars.
Blending
Les Echansons is only made in the finest years, blended from selected Chardonnay a...
Vintage 2000
A warm and wet winter was followed by an equally wet spring. First, in May, came the seri- ous heat, which gave a fast owering around June 14. Chlorosis and mold growth were evi- dent. June and August were hot and dry. But if you were like me, and tried to have a July vaca- tion in Champagne that year, you noticed how cold and rainy it was. The weather was almost as bad as at home, with constant rain and local hailstorms.
Everything l...
