vendredi 11 octobre 2019

Champagne Xavier Loriot - Millésime 2012

Guide VERON des Champagnes 2020

(around 25 euros per bottle)

Engraved bottle, sober and elegant. Back label full of information.

Aspect:

Solar.

Refined bubbles.

Sensual tears.

Nose:

Sumptuous aromatic harmony, source of heady emotions.

The fragrances of jammy red and black fruits, revelations of the Pinot Noir (45%) and Meunier (30%), gently interlace the scents of candied citrus fruits, apple, pear, quince and nice ripe exotic fruits, delicately iodized and mentholated, refined characteristic signs of the Chardonnay (25%).

Later, the champagne slowly unveils its joyful maturity, with touches of marzipan, and then of cocoa and roasted coffee, result of 5 years of patient ageing with autolysis of the prise de mousse yeasts.

Palate:

The cuvée reveals all its vital force, brilliant, at the opening, reinforced by the rigorous selection of the first juices (cuvée), purer, during the soft pressing of the grapes.

Impressive presence, coupled with an improbable balance between enveloping warmth and life-giving freshness, highlighted by a lively and creamy effervescence.

Delicious finish, underlined by subtle spices.

Rare length on the palate.

Charlène Loriot and her father Xavier were able to grasp the distinctive personality of the grapes carefully harvested by hand to sign this overwhelming Millésime 2012, with incredible delicacy.

To taste from aperitif to meal, with lamb fillets and fresh goat cheese, for example.

While her father Xavier was able to expand the vineyard and equip the wine estate with modern facilities (press, fermenting room and cellars), Charlène Loriot tries hard since 2000, assisted by her sister Marine, to impose with passion the inimitable style of the Champagne house Xavier Loriot producing splendid champagnes. She cultivates with love the 42 plots of the 10.5 hectares vineyard, well-exposed on the right bank of the Marne Valley, between Binson-et-Orquigny, Villers-sous-Châtillon and Reuil, in the respect of the environment, to enhance the generosity of the terroirs.

Champagne Xavier Loriot
38 rue du Lubre
51 700 Binson-et-Orquigny
Tel.: +33 (0)3 26 58 08 28