Desautels-Cuiret
Champagne Desautels-Cuiret Millésime 2019, Grand Cru Blanc de Blanc
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An exceptional wine, confidential, which is produced only the best years, from the best wine that makes up the vintage. Exclusively from the historic heart of the Oger terroir, the wine that composes it must have a lot of size, power and aging potential. This is a wine for lovers of great wines, which can still largely stay in the quiet of a cellar and reveal other secrets in several years. Vegan Wine. Only sold by Celerier's Cellar in the USA.
13.00%
50 years old
Recoltant-Manipulant (RM), can only produce Champagne with fruit sourced from their vineyard. Winter pruning in November after previous harvest entirely done by hand. Fixing the branch on iron wire for the Winter resting time. When plant is active again, disbudding for better aeration and better quality yield. Sexual confusion: pheromone are released, preventing insects to mate, it averts the need of insecticide product (organic method). Once vegetation is grown, stripping the leaf on one side exposed to the rising sun to reduce and cancel the use of synthetic product (natural aeration optimized). 3 weeks prior harvest, tests with samples to get sugar/acidity/aromas content of each parcels to define the course of harvests on each parcels. Harvest are fully done by hand as per Champagne tradition.Winter pruning in November after previous harvest entirely done by hand. Fixing the banch on iron wire for the Winter resting time. When plant is active again, disbudding for better aeration and better quality yield. Sexual confusion: pheromone are released, preventing insects to mate, it averts the need of insecticide product (organic method). Once vegetation is grown, stripping the leaf on one side exposed to the rising sun to reduce and cancel the use of synthetic product (natural aeration optimized). 3 weeks prior harvest, tests with samples to get sugar/acidity/aromas content of each parcels to define the course of harvests on each parcels. Harvest are fully done by hand as per Champagne tradition.
All harvests from a single vintage. Full cluster pressed in a pneumatic press, Desaultel Cuiret created their own technique to reduce sulphites exposition to an extreme minimum,Alcoholic fermentation at 15° for 10 days average, malolactic fermentationtion only on 80% of cuvee for 2 month average, segementation of cuvee by terroirs, incorporation of the core of the cuvee (best vines and harvest) for the best wine. Mature on the lees for over 36 months as per Vintange Champagne label requirements.
Chardonnay
400 cases
Champagne
The 2019 vintage in Oger unfolded through a beautifully expressive growing season, beginning with a mild, early spring that encouraged uniform budbreak before cooler, unsettled spells slowed growth and preserved the region’s hallmark acidity; a warm, luminous early summer followed, punctuated by timely rains that revived the vines after brief heat spikes, allowing Chardonnay in the Côte des Blancs to ripen steadily without excess stress. As the season advanced, August delivered a balanced combination of warmth and cool nights, concentrating aromatic purity while avoiding the extremes seen in neighboring years, and by early September the grapes reached harvest with exceptional health, fine natural tension, and a generous aromatic profile. For a Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru from Oger such as Desautels Cuiret, the result is a wine shaped by this harmonious sequence of weather
Vallée des Blancs, Champagne, France
16 inches of silt soil over solid chunk of chalk, signature terroir of Grand Cru Village in the Blanc Valley.
2019