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  • Country ranking ?

    951
  • Producer ranking ?

    3
  • Decanting time

    -
  • When to drink

    Now-2030
  • Food Pairing

    Blini with caviar

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The Story

Blend: 87% Chardonnay & 13% Pinot Noir

The company’s flagship wine is Femme de Champagne, first produced in the 1990 vintage. It is a very fine and feminine champagne that gives a great promise of the company’s future quality potential. Carol Duval-Leroy has a passion for gastronomy and this is reflected in her winemaking too. The medium-dry Lady Rosé, for instance, is made to complement desserts and she has even written a 200-recipe cookery book to match her champagnes.

Delivering an unforgettable tasting experience, this cuvee is a reflection of the close cooperation between Carol Duval-Leroy, President of the House, and Sandrine Logette-Jardin, her Head Winemaker. Both are women of a passionate and generous but demanding character, and their personalities are fully expressed in the preparation of this exceptional wine.

Through its fine and delicate structure, Femme de Champagne Vintage 2004 presents a wine of exceptional finesse and aromatic complexity. At once smooth, rounded and silky, and in appearance like mother-of-pearl, Femme de Champagne 2004 reflects the elegance and the refinement sought by Maison Duval-Leroy for an unforgettable tasting experience.

Femme de Champagne is the result of a delicate marriage of the best parcels of grapes from the region. Fine bubbles gush through the wine, bright with hints of the yellows and greens of springtime, and lit up with the sparkle of silvery moonbeams.

On the palate, a bewitching flavour of ripe hazelnuts surrounds the floral fragrance of honeysuckle, followed quickly by the delicate notes of crystalized mandarin orange peel.

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Vintage 1996

Up to this point 1996 has been considered a fantastic vintage which produced classic wines; the best since 1990. A long, dry summer produced grapes of record ripeness with record acidity. Some, including myself, question how the 1996s are aging. The wines are generally characterized by a distinctive rather lemony acidity and very good attack, but some wines now seem terribly austere, while others already seem dangerously short of fruit. None of the subsequent vintages are quite as distinctive as 1996, which in the more successful cases should almost certainly be drunk after the 1999s.

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Tasting note

color

Medium, Yellow and Bright

ending

Long, Extensive and Vibrant

flavors

Toasty, Mineral, Creamy, Citrus and White fruits

nose

Intense and Rich

taste

Firm, Focused and Fresh

Verdict

Sophisticated and Excellent

Written Notes

Probably just as potent as the 95, but not as beautiful as things are today. A more grilled, smoky and acid flavour profile. A blend of white flowers and grilled angler fish. Does that sound daft as a description of the flavour of an awesome champagne?
  • 93p
Medium-deep lemon-green colour. Delicate, elegant, fresh nose of herbs, green fruits and flowers. Edium long, light and balanced. Energetic more closed thatn the millesime fro the houyse. Mouthwatering juicy and lively.
  • 93p
Good looking magnum size bottle. Colour is yellow, and looking bright and medium. On the nose it is open, intense and rich. The taste is fresh, firm, vivid and focused. On the palate it is layered and has citrus, toasty, mineral, creamy and white fruits flavours. The finish is long, vibrant and extensive. This wine is sophisticated, excellent and too oxidised for unbiased valuation. Perfectly stored bottles are still very worthy and will last well for another 10-15 years and decant at least 15min before tasting.
- (Tasting note created by Tb's AI)
  • 93p
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Information

Origin

Vertus, Champagne

Drinking temperature

7-9C

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