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This Blanc de Blancs particularly enhances creamy-textured food, such as foie gras, meat and poultry cooked with dried or fresh fruit. A perfect accompaniment to Chinese cuisine (sweet and sour sauces) and light desserts (fruit tarts, nougat). Serve lightly chilled (8 to 10°C).
Wine Description
The Story
A perfect complement to the House’s trilogy of vintage wines, Sublime Réserve is a dry (30 g/litre) Blanc de Blancs specifically deve- loped to accompany haute cuisine.
100% Chardonnay. First press juice of mainly Grand and Premier Cru Chardonnay grapes.
vinification
Vinified using traditional methods to avoid premature oxidation. A portion of the wine is produced without malolactic fermentation, and without the use of wooden barrels ...
Wine Information
This vintage was marked by contrasts: frost and dryness in winter, rainfall and warmth during the growing season, and a harvest of hot, particularly dry weather.
Vintage 2005
The 2005 vintage was a year of marked contrasts between seasons and regions. Following a fairly harsh winter, 2005 had a mild spring with relatively warm temperatures all year long. There was above average sunshine and a slight water deficit, as had been the case throughout the dry cycle of 2005/2004 and 2003. The heat and humidity in July produced larger grapes and bunches, rather unusually for the Champagne region, while the cooler weather ...