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Wine Description
The Story
The first three bottlings released under the special Thiénot x Penfolds label are made with wines produced from the outstanding 2012 vintage. The range includes a blend of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, as well as two single-vineyard wines from grand cru villages: a Blanc de Blancs from Avize, and a Blanc de Noirs from Aÿ
Nicolas Uriel, Thiénot’s chef de cave, collaborated closely with Gago to create Champagnes expressing, in the words of Gago,...
Wine Information
Two familial chardonnay prompts immediately unleashed:
• Lemon citrus (front-palate). Lemon ice-cream with cream (mid-palate). Lemon pie, with a honey,
almond accompaniment (back-palate). What ... no lemon sorbet? Anywhere?!
• Sea-spray, saline and brine elements – prompting textural and symbolic inclusion of the seaside
vegetable plant, samphire.
Stepping back with the glass wanting allows the measure of this Avize Blanc de Blancs to...
Vintage 2013
In short, a rather cold and snowy winter followed by a cool and cloudy spring. 2013 was a late growing season (between two and three weeks later than the ten-year average). Paradoxically, there was no frost damage – although temperatures were lower than usual, they were never extreme in winter or in spring. Gloomy conditions prevailed until June. Summer finally arrived in July and rewarded Champagne with two months of sunny and warm weather. R...
