mardi 3 décembre 2019

Champagne Henri Giraud - Blanc de Craie

Guide VERON des Champagnes 2019

 (around 54 euros per bottle)

Original and elegant presentation. Disgorgement date engraved on the bottle.

Aspect:

Golden.

Crystal-clear limpidity.

Particularly fine bubbles.

Nose:

Endless, generous and sensual aromatic farandole.

Joyful scents of citrus fruits, apple and pear compote, apricot and grape, signatures of the radiant Chardonnay, exclusive varietal.

Later, the maturity of the cuvée is revealed with its notes of honey and beeswax, characteristic signs of the 3 years of ageing on laths of the bottles before riddling and disgorgement, subtly roasted thanks to the ageing of the base wines on lees for 6 months, in 3 years old oak barrels from the Argonne forest.

Palate:

Lively and dense opening, obtained by the rigorous selection of the first juices, with tasting, during the soft pressing of the grapes harvested by hand.

Tasty balance, between gentle warmth reinforced by the fulfilment of the malolactic fermentation of the base wines and bright minerality.

Deep finish, barely woody, deliciously acidulous thanks to the carefully considered dosage with 7 g/L of sugar added at disgorgement, punctuated by delicate spices.

Exceptional length on the palate.

With this Blanc de Craie, Sébastien Le Golvet, cellar master of the Champagne house Henri Giraud, offers us an exciting champagne, vertiginous interpretation of the Chardonnay in the chalk of the Grands Crus of Aÿ (55%) and Louvois (45%), highlighted by an inspired œnology.

Ideal as an aperitif but also during a meal, with prawns, citrus fruits peel and caviar, for example.

From a long line of wine growers since 1625, Claude Giraud and his team put their dynamism in the service of the excellence. Gathered around the original values of the house, between friendliness and accepted creativity, they guide with talent the ambition to craft rare champagnes, between noble champenois terroirs and vinifications in small containers, in oak from the Argonne forest or in earth, for a better breathing of the wines.

Champagne Henri Giraud
71 boulevard Charles De Gaulle
51 160 Aÿ
Tel.: +33 (0)3 26 55 18 55