mercredi 22 janvier 2020

Champagne Benoît Tassin - Brut Rosé

Guide VERON des Champagnes 2018
(around 26 euros per bottle)

Original and luxurious bottle.

Aspect:

Rose-coloured, intense, coupled with bright amber glints.

Fine and dynamic bubbles.

Fine bead of foam.

Nose:

Endless farandole of fragrances of nice ripe red and black fruits, delicious expression of the Pinot Noir, exclusive varietal of the Champagne, enhanced by 80% of semi-carbonic maceration.

Later, the cuvée reveals its maturity with captivating touches of cocoa and roasted coffee, obtained by 5 years of patient ageing on laths of the bottles before manual riddling and disgorgement on the spot.

Palate:

Touching balance at the opening thanks to the accurate dosage with 5 g/L of sugar added at disgorgement with the traditional expedition liqueur (685 g/L of cane sugar).

We find again the red and black fruits already perceived at the nose, fabulous delicacy, results of the racking at the optimum point determined by tasting, after around 4 days of maceration, rare œnological expertise carefully handed down from father to son for three generations.

Very great length on the palate.

For this heady Brut Rosé, Benoît Tassin, its producer, was able to accompany with sensitivity grapes harvested by hand at perfect ripeness (10.5 natural alcohol degrees), in 2011, in a plot of the locality « Les Fioles » facing south-east in Celles-sur-Ource, cultivated with accuracy to obtain low yields.

To taste from aperitif to meal, with a red fruits tart, for example.

Now assisted by his daughter, Cyrielle, who joined the wine estate in 2016 and while his son Clément is preparing his BTS (Advanced Technician Certificate in viticulture and œnology in the Lycée Viticole de la Champagne, Benoît Tassin, eighth generation of passionate wine growers, has been perpetuating the champenois traditions of welcome and friendliness with its museum of the old bottle. Its vineyard of 4.75 hectares, established in Essoyes and Celles-sur-Ource in the Côte des Bar, gives birth to around 16,000 bottles per year of quality Champagnes.

Champagne Benoît Tassin
6 rue de l’église
10110 Celles-sur-Ource
Tel.: +33 (0)3 25 38 52 27
www.champagne-benoit-tassin.com