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Wine Description
The Story
- Product: Lamiable Grand Cru Les Héliades
- Formats available: 750 ml
- Appellation: AOC Champagne
- Country: France
- Raw materials: 80% Chardonnay 20% Pinot Noir
- SoilType: Chalk and limestone
- Exposition: South
- Average Yield: 76.5 hl/ha
- Vinification: Fermentation in stainless steel tanks. The wine then undergoes malolactic fermentation.
- Vintage: NV
- Region: Champagne
- Average Of Vineyards: Vines were planted in 1953 by Pi...
Wine Information
A very bright pale yellow robe complemented by a few golden reflections. Melon and fresh peach notes. The lovely vivacity in the mouth gives way to notes of citrus fruit and ripe pink grapefruit.
Vintage 2009
This warm year started with a cold winter and mild spring temperatures. Early summer was variable but August and September provided ample sunshine and warmth contributing to fine grape health. Pinot Noir especially excelled. Grape harvest, of generally high sugar content yet soft acidity, started on September 8th. 2009 is a year of generous wines that showed well early. An apt example of a vintage of the recent era, in which retaining freshnes...
