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Wine Description
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...
Wine Information
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.
winemaking
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...
