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  • Country ranking ?

    1 322
  • Producer ranking ?

    55
  • Decanting time

    10min
  • When to drink

    now to 2035
  • Food Pairing

    game birds served with cranberries

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The Story

Mareuil-sur-Ay is one of a trio of single plot cuvées, of which 2008 is the second vintage after 2006. The selected plots are part of, or adjacent to Clos des Goisses. Only 3,339 bottles of this vintage were produced.

the blend

100% Pinots Noirs from the village of Mareuil-sur-Ay and the House’s historic terroirs. First press juice of exclusively Premier Cru grapes from the heart of the Champagne wine-growing area. The 2008 vintage compr...

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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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Interesting, pleasantly soft nose with some depth. Cherry and cranberry fruit with ground pepper and cloves. Some tannin but well managed, balanced rather elegant whole. Juicy, succulent structure with good texture, not too thin.

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Origin

Mareuil-sur-Ay, Champagne

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