Les Maillons (2017)
NV
Region
France › Champagne › Champagne AOC › Côte de Sézanne
Type
white · sparkling · extra-brut
Grapes
Pinot Noir
Alcohol
12.5%
Volume
750 mL
Sugar
4.2 g/L
Tasting Notes
Over the last two years, it has become wider and deeper. Sophisticated, elegant, and perfumed bouquet full of apple seeds, iodine, yellow fruits, red apple skin, yellow currant, plum, dough, graphite, with some Jerez notes and lanolin. On the palate, it has a generous core of minerality, bright acidity, fruits in the background, and a lively mousse. All that results in an insanely concentrated, precise, evolving, enveloping, and vinous wine. It's interesting how it opens up with some cider and pickled flavours. I can't help but wonder how this wine will evolve with time.
A sophisticated and expressive bouquet full of cheese, apple seeds, honey, graphite, and red apple jam with Jerez notes. Elegant, precise, delicious and almost perfectly balanced. Good to drink it now. Incredible.
About
Pinot Noir vines were planted in 1971 in heavy, iron-rich clay soils with chalky limestone sub-soils. Hand-harvested, the clusters destemmed and the grapes gently pressed; the juice is fermented spontaneously and slowly (up to 6 months) with natural yeasts in mainly-used Burgundy barrels. Reserve wines are held in foudres and tonneaux. The wine is bottled without fining or filtering and aged on lees for 36 months.
