Guide VERON des Champagnes 2016
(around
27 euros per bottle)
Original
and luxurious packaging, in an engraved bottle.
Aspect :
·
Gold, with delicate green glints.
·
Sparkling bubbles, particularly fine.
·
Delicate bead of bubbles, persistent on the periphery of the flute after
service.
Nose :
·
Radiant, it reveals immediately the great ripeness of the Cuvée, on
joyful touches of brioche and pastry, accompanied with hints of honey, of
marzipan and gingerbread, obtained by 6 years of ageing on laths of the
bottles, allowing the slow autolysis of prise
de mousse yeasts.
·
The Chardonnay, exclusive varietal of this champagne, carefully selected
on the Grand Cru terroir of Cramant,
in the Côte des Blancs, reveals afterwards slowly its elegance and its
complexity, with some subtle aromas of candied citrus fruit (lemon and
grapefruit), raisin, almond, hazelnut and white flowers.
Palate :
·
Round and creamy, perhaps thanks to a judicious
fulfillment of the malolactic fermentation of the base wines, enhanced by a
good minerality.
·
Remarkable
presence, softly mentholated.
·
Warm and balanced finish, hardly spicy, always
mineral, and deliciously acidulous thanks to an adjusted dosage with 6g/L of
sugar added at disgorgement.
·
Good length on the palate.
With this restricted cuvée Nobilis Millésime
2006 (7,500 bottles), only elaborated in the best years, Dominique
Ruffin, Chef de Cave, was able to
combine ancestral traditions and accurate oenology, to offer us a high-level
Champagne.
To taste from aperitif to meal, to accompany a prawn,
for example.
Settled in Etoges for
more than 60 years, the Champagne House of Ruffin et fils cultivates with care
a vineyard area of 11 hectares with three champenois varietals (Chardonnay, Pinot
Noir and Pinot Meunier), and is based on a provision carefully selected of 9
hectares, to elaborate passionately around 200,000 bottles of exceptional
champagne.
Champagne Ruffin et fils
20 grande
rue
51 270
Etoges
France
Tel. : +33
(0)3 26 59 30 14
Fax. : +33
(0)3 26 59 34 96
Email :
contact@champagnes-ruffin.com
www.champagnes-ruffin.com
