Guide VERON des Champagnes 2018
(around 30 euros per
bottle)
Radiant bottle, engraved
and numbered.
Aspect:
White gold.
Refined and dynamic
bubbles.
Elegant bead of bubbles,
persistent.
Nose:
Touching harmony of
sensual fragrances.
Aromas of citrus fruits,
white fruits (apple, pear), quince and fresh hazelnut, highlighted by an
iodized and mentholated breath, heady signatures of the Chardonnay, exclusive
varietal of the Champagne, carefully harvested by hand in 2007 in old plots of
vine of the Grand Cru of Cramant in the Côte des Blancs.
Patience is rewarded by
the appearance of gentle touches of marzipan and butter, barely toasted and
spicy, joyful characteristic signs of the maturity of the cuvée obtained by 9 years of patient ageing on laths of the
bottles, before riddling and disgorgement.
Palate:
Lively opening, obtained
by the selection of the first juices during the soft pressing of the whole
grapes and by the adjusted dosage with only 4 g/L of sugar added at
disgorgement.
The mouth is revealed
deep and generous, perhaps thanks to the judicious fulfilment of the malolactic
fermentation of the base wines, supported by the mineral tension of the chalky terroirs.
Fresh finish, punctuated
by delicious spices.
Endless length on the
palate.
For this Cuvée Nobilis
Millésimée 2007, Dominique Ruffin, cellar master, delivers us a joyful blanc de blancs with a very good value
for money.
To taste as an aperitif
ou during a meal, with fish wrapped in foil, lemongrass and citrus fruits, for
example.
Created in 1947 in
Etoges by Jean Ruffin, the Champagne House Ruffin et Fils has been perpetuating
with passion the family traditions, between original expertise and innovation.
Under the leadership of Alexandre Ruffin arrived in 1995, the wine estate
becomes a Champagne House in 1996. Its vineyard of 11 hectares completed by a
supply of grapes rigorously selected, and a controlled œnology give birth each
year to around 200,000 bottles of highly expressive Champagnes.
Champagne Ruffin et Fils
20 Grande Rue
51270 Etoges
Tel.: +33 (0)3 26 59 30 14
