Chocolate roses & Champagne to celebrate Sant Jordi:
Monday, April 22th at 20h.
3 roses and 3 glassess of champagne!
Chocolate roses.
And champagne from three regions of the Champagne
Côte de Bars
Vallée de la Marne
Montagne de Reims
Eric Collinet – Temporis – La Côte des Bar, Champagne
98% Pinot Noir, 2% Chardonnay.
Originally from Limousin, I settled in Bragelogne-Beauvoir in 1987, a village located at the southern end of Côte des Bar in the Champagne region. I grow there 2 ha 25 of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes but also truffle trees in organic farming. My work of the soil and the vines is translated daily in all my actions – the respect of the seasons, nature and its rhythm. To listen to nature quietly and with patience, to look at it and accompany it – just one word : TIME !
Eric Collinet
Faniel et Fils – Agapane – Vallée de la Marne, Champagne
65% Meunier & 35% Pinot Noir
‘Agapane’ is a play on the Greek word ‘agape,’ meaning unconditional love, and that’s how we feel about this lively Champagne.
This champagne is crystal clear and pale yellow, and comes with a lively effervescence and a generous foam. The maturity of the dried fruits is expressed before delivering notes of candied fruits and honey. Upon tasting, the attack on the palate is soft and silky, the candied fruit and the mirabelle plum unveil themselves, followed by a very fresh finish.
A blend of 65% pinot meunier, with 35% pinot noir providing the balance, it has lovely flavors of ripe pear, a hint of plum, and bracing acidity and minerality on the finish.
70% 2019, 30% 2018, bottled 2020, Degorgement October 2022
Dossage: Extra Brut, 3,8 Gs/l
Pehu Simonet – Les Côtes – Montagne de Reims, Champagne
100% Pinot Noir
100% 2019 Pinot Noir and fortified with 20% reserve wine, adding depth and complexity to the blend.
Dosage: Brut, 7 g/l
Terroir – Montagne de Reims in the Grand Cru de Verzennay, a region famous for producing grapes of unparalleled quality.
Champagne glossary.
terroir:
- Grand Cru, of those towns that have the highest rating of 100%.
There are only 17 villages classified as Grand Cru. They represent some 3,000 hectares (of the 34,000 total).
The towns classified as Grand Cru are: Ambonnay, Avize, Ai, Beaumont-sud-Vesle, Bouzy, Chouilly (for Chardonnay only), Cramant, Louvois, Mailly-Champagne, The Mesnil-sud-Oger, Ozyger, Oiry, Puisieulx, Sillery, Tours-sud-Marne (for Pinzenayor only), Ver - Premier Cru, towns that will receive between 90 and 99% valuation.
There are 44 villages that have the qualification of Premier Cru, which add up to about 7,500 hectares. - Cru, these municipalities have an assessment of 80 to 89%.
They are the majority of the municipalities of Champagne with 255 municipalities and represent 70% of the Champagne vineyard.
The name "Grand Cru" is very little in the labels because it can only be used if all the grapes come from municipalities with this classification something very difficult since most coupages contain grapes from various "Crues".
The name "Premier Cru" has the same problem. The coupages are rather classified with a percentage of 80% to 100%, determined by the amount of grapes used for the composition of the mixture.
Only the major brands of prestige produce wines that have an average of more than 90% on the Crus scale is that they are produced only with grapes of "Grands Crus" and "Premiers Crus".
dosage:
- BRUT NATURE: Champagne is not sweetened, with less than 3 g/l of residual sugar, without dosage or zero dosage.
- EXTRA BRUT: It can contain up to 6 g/l of sugar.
- BRUT: May contain up to 12 g/l of sugar.
- EXTRA DRY: It can contain between 12 and 17 g/l of sugar.
- SEC: May contain between 17 and 32 g/l of sugar.
- DEMI-SEC: It can contain between 32 and 50 g/l of sugar.
- DOUX: It can exceed 50 g/l of sugar.
grapes:
- BLANC: Champagne made only with Chardonnay white grapes.
- BLANC DE NOIRS: White Champagne made with red grapes of pinot noir and/or pinot meunier.
- ROSÉ D'ASSEMBLAGE: red wine is added to the coupage.
- ROSÉ DE SAIGNÉE: The red grape is left to macerate with the must from 6 to 18 hours.
vintages:
- NON-VINTAGE: With grapes from different vintages with a minimum of 15 months of aging.
- MILLÉSIMÉ: Champagne of vintage, it is made only when the harvest is exceptional. They can be from different vineyards and different varieties but always from the same year. The minimum aging time is 3 years.