Champagne
Avize Champ Caïn - 2013 - Famille Chiquet
Champagne Jacquesson
A blanc de blancs with mineral notes, and hints of citrus and yellow apple... A saline Champagne, chalky, with lovely tension, great poise, and exceptional finesse.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Biodynamic wine
- Appellation
- Champagne
- Degree of alcohol
- 12.5 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2031
- rock’n’roll
A Chardonnay cuvée from vines planted at Champ Caïn, one of Jacquesson’s famous vineyard sites. The 1.3-ha parcel is situated at the bottom of the slope, facing south, and planted in 1962 at a high density with 12000 vines. The soil is composed of clayey, loamy limestone with chalky gravel. Manual harvest one the 10th of October 2013. This Champagne did not receive any dosage, and was aged 9 years in stacks. It is a very rare cuvée, produced only in the greatest vintages.
Jean-Hervé & Laurent Chiquet
Jean-Hervé and Laurent Chiquet are the inheritors of a champagne house that was handed down to their father Jean in 1974. Meticulous vignerons, they often remain discrete regarding the magnificent history of their house. Since Napoleon Bonaparte bestowed a gold medal upon the house, Jacquesson & Fils has never disappointed. The vineyard parcels are ideally spread over grand crus (Aÿ,...
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