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Wine tasting notes
This is an extraordinary, hand-crafted Champagne with aromas of strawberries, spice, dried apples, clementines and subtle bread dough. Dried oranges, too. Full-bodied, yet so tight, compact and powerful with a solid core of fruit and a finish that goes on forever.
Expert reviews
90% Pinot Noir, 10% Chardonnay. Giraud's cuvée based on wine fermented and aged in oak from the nearby Argonne forest. Bottle 1,359 of a very limited edition. Pale apricot colour. A wine (not a champagne) for the table and definitely not designed to be drunk carelessly en aperitif. Gentle mousse and complex toasty notes in the Côte d'Or spectrum – though it reminds me directly neither of white burgundy nor even of red burgundy. Acidity is beautifully counterbalanced by Pinot fruit and a delicately enveloping structure from the oak. I have tasted earlier editions of this wine that seemed more - too - marked by oak. Vibrant and beautiful to drink now, though I don't doubt it will develop further.
This is an extraordinary, hand-crafted Champagne with aromas of strawberries, spice, dried apples, clementines and subtle bread dough. Dried oranges, too. Full-bodied, yet so tight, compact and powerful with a solid core of fruit and a finish that goes on forever. 90% pinot noir and 10% chardonnay, all from the village of Ay and fermented and aged in new wood for 15 months. Then aged in bottle. Superb structure and complexity. One for the cellar.
Vinification notes
Fermented and aged in new wood for 15 months. Then aged in bottle. Superb structure and complexity