mercredi 22 janvier 2020

Champagne Gondé – Rousseaux - Blanc de Fût


Guide VERON des Champagnes 2018
(around 27 euros per bottle)

Original and luxurious bottle.

Aspect:

Golden and crystal-clear.

Fine bubbles.

Reserved bead of foam.

Nose:

Intense and touching aromatic harmony, obtained by the respect of a long period between disgorgement and shipment (minimum 4 months).

The Chardonnay, exclusive varietal of the Champagne, slowly unveils its fragrances of candied citrus fruits, apple and white flowers, enhanced by a sensual woody breath, characteristic sign of 7 months of ageing of the base wines in 2-years-old oak barrels.

Later, the radiant maturity is revealed with its scents of toast and cocoa, thanks to 7 years of patient autolysis of the prise de mousse yeasts in bottles, before riddling and disgorgement.

Palate:

Exciting tension at the opening, reinforced by the rigorous selection of the cuvée (first pressing juices) during the soft pressing of the grapes, and by the timely stop of the malolactic fermentation of the base wines.

Later, the mouth becomes an enveloping caress, definitely thanks to the generous dosage with 10 g/L of sugar added at disgorgement.

To finish, we find again subtle woody notes, highlighted by the tasty minerality.

Great length on the palate.

For this cuvée Blanc de Fût, Florian Gondé was able to harvest by hand in 2009 his best Chardonnays, and to accompany them with gentleness to offer us this jewel, inspired interpretation of the chalky terroir of Taissy.

To taste as an aperitif or during a meal, to accompany a skate wings and parsley cream, for example.

Wine grower in Taissy for over 30 years, the Champagne House Gondé - Rousseaux, directed by Florian Gondé since 2013, tries its hardest to compose with passion around 10,000 bottles per year of a range of Champagnes with personality, under the brand created by his father in 1976. Certified Haute Valeur Environnementale level 3, it cultivates with care, without using herbicides, its vineyard of 4 hectares planted with the three champenois varietals in the Premier Cru terroir of Taissy, in the Mountain of Reims.

Champagne Gondé - Rousseaux
47 A rue des Ailettes
51500 Taissy
Tel.: +33 (0)3 26 82 22 41