235 Champagne AC NV Brut Les Ursules
Roses de Jeanne, Cédric Bouchard

Grape:100% Pinot Noir (12.5% alc.)

A touch deeper colour than the Inflorescence, with a beautiful pinot nose. Also made 100% from 2007 juice, Les Ursules (single grape, single terroir, single vintage), spends 28 months on its lees before disgorging with no dosage. It has striking clarity, fine mousse and an extremely long finish. Only 3600 bts produced. Very limited quantity. For drinking now to 2016.

Technical Information
Winemaker:	Cédric Bouchard
Location:	Celles sur Ource, lieu dit les Ursules, Aube
Size of domaine:	2.50 hectares of which les Ursules 0.90h
Grape:	100% Pinot Noir. S04 clone on 41B rootstock. 34 years old. 8000 vines per hectare.
Terroir:	Gentle 5% slope, 150 mtrs above sea-level. Limestone-clay soil with lots of small broken up stones.
Viticulture:	Debud. Don’t carry out vendanges en vert. Plough from spring until the vine flowers in June. Leave grass to grow naturally throughout the vineyard. No chemical herbicides or pesticides. Harvested by hand. 26 hectos per hectare yield.
Vinification:	Pressed by traditional 4000 kgs Coquard press. Leaves juice to settle for 24 hours. Vinified in stainless steel (at 18-20°C) using natural, indigenous yeasts. The wine is left on its fine lees over the winter where it naturally carries out its malolactic fermentation. After 6 months in cuve it is racked and bottled off. Use only the wine of 1 vintage (no reserve wine). Bewteen 20-22 g/l of sugar is used for the secondary ferementation for a gentler, finer mousse. Disgorged by hand with no dosage after 17 months. 3600bts produced on average.
Press:

 

qty (bottles)

exc vat: £36.67