Champagne and Producer Profiles Flashcards
Salon What are main styles? Where are his vineyards located? First Vintage? Lees Aging?
Produces one wine
BdB only, seeing 10 years on lees.
First vintage 1921.
1.2 HA in Le mesnil sur oger
Egly-Ouriet
What is the main style and varietals?
Lees Aging?
Powerful and Intense Champagnes.
Some of the lowest Yields from old vines.
3 years on lees.
Pinot Noir dominant and also has a BdN (munier) from Virgny
Jacques Selosse
What is the most interesting thing about the Selosse wines?
Why is dosage an important factor for this producer?
Has an oxidative style of champagne and very low dosage except for his Exquise with 24g/l
Top Wine is the “Substance” using the solera method 12 vintages old.
First Vintage 1960
Pierre Peters
Where does his primary fermentation take place?
What is his best cuvee?
Est 1919
No Oak usage, only ferments in Stainless Steel
Full Malo
“Cuvee Special Le Chetillon” est. 1971
Bollinger
Cuvee de prestige?
Grande Anne ?
Aging in barrel or tank?
est 1829 “Story of the 3 families”
Owns to pre-phylloxera vineyards Clos st Jacques and Chaudes Terres that go into the VV Francaises
Vintage wines ages in only oak
Grand Anne is 2/3 PN seeing 60 mos. in on lees
RD is Grande Anne w/ extended lees aging
Pol Roger
Cuvee de prestige?
Still family owned and operated since 1849.
Sir Winston Churchill
This cuvee is bold, rich, full bodied, dominates with PN and see much aging and hand riddling is deep cellars
Each vineyard and varietal age fermented and aged separately
Elisabeth Salmon Rose
Billecart-Salmon, Mareuil-sur-Ay, Tete de cuvee 1988
Nicolas Francois Billecart
Billecart-Salmon, Mareuil-sur-Ay 1955
“R.D.”
Bollinger, Ay 1952, Pinot noir dominant blend
“V.V. Francais”
Bollinger, Ay, 1969 pre phylloxera 100% Pinot noir cuvee
Amour de Deutz
Bdb 1993 by Deutz, Ay
Charles de Gaulle
Drappier, Urville, 1990 PN heavy
Celebris
Goesset, Epernay, 1988 PN/Chard blend
Blanc des Millenaires
Charles Heidsieck, Reims, 1983
Dom Perignon
Moet and Chandon, Epernay, 1921, Rose -1959
