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Wine Description
The Story
THE CHARLES’ WINE represents a world of elegance and indulgence. It is beautifully balanced and captivatingly complex. The quality demands meticulous attention. A fine-tuned dose of unconventional decisions at each step of the champagne production process.
Each wine has its own personality, its own generous tone. The fresh elegance of Chardonnay. The structure of Pinot Noir. The generosity of Meunier. Blending wines of the year with reserve...
Wine Information
The elegance and strength of a grande cuvée in a grand vintage. A virtuoso wine.
Having matured in our two-thousand-year-old chalk cellars for over ten years, Charles Heidsieck Brut Vintage 2000 is a perfectly elegant and complex wine. It lingers eternally in the mouth, and has a magnificent structure. This is one of the most awarded Brut vintages in the world.
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.
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