jeudi 10 octobre 2019

Champagne Louis Massing - OPERIS - Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru - Façon Brut

Guide VERON des Champagnes 2020

(around 23 euros per bottle)

Neat and sober presentation. Label decorated with the aroma wheel, new emblem of the house.

Aspect:

Pale gold, coupled with emerald glints.

Fine bubbles.

Fine bead of foam, persistent.

Nose:

Heady and endless round of radiant aromas.

An iodized and mentholated breath enhances the scents of nice ripe apple, pear and citrus fruits, refined characteristic signs of the Chardonnay, exclusive varietal of the cuvée.

Later, the fragrances of honey and caramel punctuated by roasted hints, gently establish themselves, results of 3 years of patient ageing of the bottles on laths, before riddling and disgorgement.

Palate:

Lively and mineral opening, obtained by the rigorous selection of the first juices (cuvée), purer, during the soft pressing of the grapes harvested by hand in 2015 in the Grands Crus of Avize (with 30% from the « Terres de Maladries ») and Le Mesnil-sur-Oger.

The mouth becomes gentleness silky, supported by the 9 g/L of sugar added during the dosage as an homemade expedition liqueur, carefully produced with wine aged in oak barrels.

Balanced finish.

Great length on the palate.

With this cuvée OPERIS, blancs de blancs Grand Cru, Julien and Jean-Bernard Moroy offer us a remarkable champagne, real delicacy, between finesse and sensuality.

To taste from aperitif to meal, with a sole and lemon sauce, for example.

Julien Moroy, fourth generation of wine growers, alongside his parents, Estelle and Jean-Bernard, tries its hardest to put his passion and dynamism in the service of the family saga started in 1922. Grapes from the 12 hectares vineyard of the house, mainly established in the Grands Crus of the Côte des Blancs (Avize and Le Mesnil-sur-Oger) and completed by a rigorously selected supply, are vinified with accuracy and sensitivity, to enhance the terroirs and highlight each year around 300,000 bottles of champagnes divided into 3 new ranges.

Champagne Louis Massing
118 allée Jules Lucotte - P. A. le Paradis
51 190 Avize
Tel.: +33 (0)3 26 57 52 92