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About the Wine
Exceptional grower Champagne from Grand Cru rated vines planted on brown clayey soils in Bouzy and Ambonnay. Made with a blend of 90% Pinot Noir and 10% Chardonnay, the wine is wonderfully expressive on the nose with soft spices, stone fruits and citrus peel and almonds. On the palate, a deep richness a welcome bitterness and streak of minerality. A truly stunning wine from prestigious, biodynamic vineyards.
This is based on the 2020 vintage with some reserve wines. It was initially aged in 2-5yo barrels and then given two and a half years bottle ageing on the lees before disgorgement in December 2023 without dosage.
About Benoît Lahaye
Benoît and Valérie Lahaye make quite exceptional champagnes from superb terroirs, including four single-vineyard champagnes. They have just 4.8ha of vines in Bouzy and Ambonnay that they work together with their two sons, and an incredibly muscular horse called Tamise used for ploughing to avoid compaction of the soils.
Since changing to biodynamic viticulture in the late 2000s the most notable benefit has been that the grapes attain higher levels of ripeness whilst retaining the same level of acidity. As the grapes regularly give 11% alcohol for the first fermentation and there is a natural density to the juice, most of their champagnes are now disgorged without dosage and since 2008 they have carried out the malolactic fermentations.