mercredi 22 janvier 2020

Champagne Guy Larmandier - Cuvée Signé François Millésime 2009


Guide VERON des Champagnes 2018
(around 30 euros per bottle)

Neat bottle, decorated with an elegant satin label.

Aspect:

Gold, bright.

Very fine bubbles.

Refined bead of bubbles.

Nose:

Touching scents.

The Chardonnay, exclusive varietal of the Champagne, imposes its elegance with its aromas of apple, pear, peach, citrus fruits, almond, driven by an iodized and mentholated breath.

Later, the nose becomes sensual with its gentle touches of honey, translations of the fullness of the cuvée obtained by 7 years of ageing on laths of the bottles in the cellars of the House, before riddling and disgorgement.

Palate:

The liveliness of the opening, result of the rigorous selection of the first juices (cuvée) during the soft pressing of the grapes freshly harvested, gives way to an intense mineral tension, mineral characteristic sign of the chalk.

The mouth becomes sensual thanks to the judicious fulfilment of the malolactic fermentation of the base wines and to the generous dosage, with 11 g/L of sugar added at disgorgement.

Tasty finish, punctuated by delicate spices.

Remarkable length on the palate.

With this Cuvée Signé François Millésime 2009, François Larmandier was able to choose, in 2009, the Chardonnay of his best plots of vine in the Grands Crus of Cramant and Chouilly (a majority in Cramant), to offer us a highly expressive Champagne.

To taste from aperitif to meal, with a sole turban, asparagus and lemon zest, for example.

Founded in Vertus in 1977 by Guy Larmandier, the Champagne House Guy Larmandier, now directed by Colette Larmandier and her children François and Marie-Hélène, has been perpetuating with passion the champenois traditions. The grapes of old plots of vine (over 35 years old in average) of the 9.20 hectares vineyard, vinified with talent, give birth each year to around 95,000 bottles of authentic Champagnes, heady revelations of the majority of Chardonnay cultivated in the Grands Crus (Cramant and Chouilly) and Premiers Crus (Vertus and Cuis) of the Côte des Blancs.

Champagne Guy Larmandier
30 rue du général Kœnig
51130 Vertus
Tel.: +33 (0)3 26 52 12 41