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    1 198
  • Producer ranking ?

    2
  • Decanting time

    15min
  • When to drink

    2020-2035
  • Food Pairing

    Seafood, Salads & Consommes

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The Story

Since the early days, Alain Thiénot has created an eponymous Champagne in his image, he has also crafted a vintage Champagne for each of his children: Cuvée Garance and Cuvée Stanislas. Expressing the most prestigious Champagne Grand Cru and the finest vintages, the wines in this collection are crafted from grapes sourced exclusively from Champagne Thiénot’s Premier and Grand Cru vineyards. They epitomise this family spirit and stay true to th...

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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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Written Notes

Bright green yellow colour. Broad intense nose with some yeasty tones. Firm chalky notes. Dry and crisp, dense and concentrated, lingering intense mineral finish. – JL 93p. (3/2023)

  • 93p

100% Chardonnay but, unlike La Vigne aux Gamins, this is from four different sources: 35% Cramant, 35% Avize, 20% Chouilly and 10% Épernay. Full malo. Disgorged September 2019 with a dosage of 4 g/l. 25,000 bottles and 800 magnums produced.
Although this has a higher dosage than Vigne aux Gamins and was disgorged a year beforehand, this wine tastes tarter. There's a certain nuttiness – a hint of marzipan? – but it's a little meagre with a little bit of astringency on the finish.

  • 88p
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Reims, Champagne
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