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  • Country ranking ?

    1 715
  • Producer ranking ?

    12
  • Decanting time

  • When to drink

    2020-2030
  • Food Pairing

    crustaceans, fish, white meats, mature cheeses & aperitif

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The Story

Varietal: 100% Chardonnay 2008 (Organic and biodynamic)
Terroir: Côte des Blancs in Grand Cru
Soil type: 100% Chalk
Average age of vines: over 60 years
Degrees: 12.5%
Manual harvest: 100%
Aging: 100% oak barrel
Dosage: 3 gr / L
Filtration and collage: no
Disgorgement: see on the counter label
Recommended aging time: 8-15 years or older
Operating temperature: 8-10 °C
Food / wine pairing: crustaceans, fish, white meats, mature cheese...

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Tasting comment
This Champagne, Cuvée des Caudalies 2008, will delight you with its refinement and its aromatic scale focused on the ripe yellow fruit such as peach, apricot or quince to hints of honey and gingerbread.
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Vintage 2008

2008 -The Champagne vintage set to make history!

A first taste of leading winemakers’ 2008 champagnes reveals a miraculous vintage, bubbling with potential, which – whisper it – might just prove the greatest in living memory.

2008 was not, by any standards, a vintage year for the financial world. And for the greater part of it, 2008 was a pretty poor year for Champagne too: spring was freezing, summer gloomy and overcast. But then, aroun...

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Origin

Avize, Champagne

Grapes

100% Chardonnay

Drinking temperature

8-10C

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