Jacques Lassaigne
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229 Champagne AC NV Brut Les Vignes de Montgueux
Jacques LassaigneGrape:100% Chardonnay BdeB (12% alc.)
The south-facing vines here give a delicious, vibrantly fruity (hints of grapefruit/mango) mineral champagne. Viticulture is organic (another vigneron ‘sans papiers’) and natural yeasts only are used. It is made 70% from 2007 with 30% oak aged 2006 reserve wine, and was disgorged with 5g/l of dosage in October 2010.
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230 Champagne AC NV Extra-Brut Le Cotet
Jacques LassaigneGrape:100% Chardonnay BdeB (12.5% alc.)
Lassaigne’s top cuvée comes from 0.6 hectares of 45 year old vines. It’s a blend of 2007 (70%, of which 7% was aged in oak) and bottles of 2005 Le Cotet (which incorporated some 2002) kept fresh under capsule. This helps to give it more reserve than his other cuvée. It has a very pure, bracing fruit with hints of honeysuckle, straw, hazelnut and just 2g/l of dosage. Very limited quantity. For drinking now to 2012.
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