Guide VERON des Champagnes 2016
(around
15 euros per bottle)
Careful
and elegant presentation.
Aspect :
·
Golden and bright.
·
Particularly fine bubbles.
·
Refined bead of bubbles.
Nose :
·
Initially reserved, the nose
is then revealed, harmonious, source of an intense pleasure.
·
The Chardonnay, exclusive
varietal of the cuvée, carefully harvested by hand, at perfect ripeness, in
plots (30 years old on average) in the Grands Crus of Cramant, Avize and
Chouilly, takes us into an endless aromatic melody, with some scents of citrus
fruits, almond, hazelnut, apple, pear, apricot, grape and white flowers,
coupled with a iodized and mentholated breath.
·
The emerging maturity of the
Champagne is then unveiled with soft notes of barely toasted caramel, the
results of 3 years of ageing on laths of the bottles before disgorgement.
Palate :
·
Pure and mineral opening, reinforced by the
particularly soft pressing of the grapes and by the perfect control of the
malolactic fermentations of the base wines.
·
The mouth then becomes silky and deep thanks to the
ageing in vats of the base wines on fine lees, for several months, underlined
by the lively effervescence.
·
Tasty and warm
finish.
·
Very good length on the palate.
With this Cuvée
Cœur de Chardonnay, Denis Petitjean, its producer, was able to blend 3 years of
harvest (10% from 2009, 30% from 2010 and 60% from 2011) to transcend the noble
terroirs of the Côte des Blancs.
To taste from aperitif to meal, to accompany a Maine lobster
salad, for example.
Settled
since 1981 in Cramant, the Champagne House Petitjean-Pienne is currently
directed by Denis Petitjean and his wife, sixth generation of wine growers
recently joined by their daughter Marie. A vineyard of 4 hectares cultivated
with a real desire to reduce the environmental footprint and a careful oenology
with vinifications in small volumes (10 to 30 hectolitres) allow to produce
around 25,000 bottles per year of a range of quality Champagnes.
Champagne
Petitjean-Pienne
4, allée des Bouleaux
51 530 Cramant
France
Tel. : +33 (0)3 26 57 58 26
Fax. : +33 (0)3 26 57 00 68
Email :
petitjean.pienne@wanadoo.fr
