Guide VERON des Champagnes 2018
(around 38
euros per bottle)
Sober and harmonious
bottle.
Aspect:
Golden.
Fine bubbles.
Refined bead of bubbles.
Nose:
Joyful.
The majority of Meunier
(90%), underlined by the elegance of the Chardonnay (10%), takes us into its
heady universe of fragrances of candied red and black fruits driven by an
iodized and mentholated breath.
The maturity then
reveals its sensuality with gentle notes of pastries, result of 3 years of
ageing on laths of the bottles with traditional corks held by a clip, before
disgorgement on the spot.
Palate:
Vertiginous purity at
the opening obtained by the rigorous selection of the first juices during the
pressing of the grapes (cœur de cuvée),
reinforced by the timely stop of the malolactic fermentation of the base wines
and by the absence of dosage (no sugar added at disgorgement).
The mouth becomes
caressing thanks to the ageing of the base wines on lees, in vats (85%) and in
barrels (15%).
Remarkable presence at
the end.
Great length on the
palate.
For this cuvée Sur le grand Marais, Eric Taillet
was able to harvest grapes to perfect ripeness in 2012 and 2013, in the
marly-clay plots N°3 and 4 of the locality Sur le grand Marais become vineyard
in 1900 and replanted in 1986 with Meunier further to the winter frosts of the
previous year, and then gradually replaced by Chardonnay, to offer us an
unforgettable interpretation of the terroir
of Baslieux-sous-Châtillon.
To taste from aperitif
to meal, to accompany a dory and common shrimps, for example.
Daniel Taillet, from a
long line of passionate wine growers, founded the House Taillet in 1961 in
Baslieux-sous-Châtillon. Since 1995, under the leadership of his son Eric, the
Champagne House Eric Taillet continues its revolution. Its vineyard of 5.75
hectares implanted in the Marne Valley enables it to compose each year with
accuracy 35,000 bottles of a range of precious champagnes, variations inspired
around the Meunier and selected plots.
Champagne Eric Taillet
37 rue Valentine Régnier
51700
Baslieux-sous-Châtillon
Tel.: +33 (0)3 26 58 11
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Cel.: +33 (0)6 88 63 47
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