lundi 4 mai 2020

Champagne Michel Turgy – Cuvée Vieilles Vignes – Blanc de blancs Grand Cru

Guide VERON des Champagnes 2015

(approximately 32 euros a bottle)

 

The Champagne Michel Turgy carefully grows his 6-hectare vineyard, exclusively planted with Chardonnay, in the Grand Cru of Mesnil-sur-Oger, to perpetuate the tradition, by producing and by marketing 60,000 bottles of authentic Champagnes every year, of which 70% are exported.

 

Sober, original and very successful presentation.

 

Visual Aspect: 

 

·        Pale gold, brilliant.

·        Fine bubbles.

·        Elegant bead of bubbles, persisting after the service.

 

Nose :

 

·        Intense and moving.

·      Accomplished maturity, with warm notes of butter and brioche, then nuances of cocoa and roasted coffee, results of the patient ageing on laths of the bottles before disgorgement (4 years), with autolyseisof the bottle fermentation yeasts.

·        The Chardonnay, the exclusive grape variety of the cuvée, then shows itself, with delicate aromas of apple, pear, cherry plum and citrus fruits compote, matched with mentholated and subtly spicy scents.

 

Palate:

 

·        Vivid first taste, thanks to the rigorous selection of the first juices, purer, at the pressing of the grapes, and especially to the sensible blocking of the malolactic fermentation of the base wines, and in the very low dosage, at disgorgement.

·        Beautiful density, broad and generous, with a moving minerality, inimitable expressions of the grapes mainly harvested in 2008 (93%) and in 2007 (7%), at full maturity, with limited yields, on two plots of land of old vine) (45 and 50 years), located in the heart of Mesnil-sur-Oger, facing south.

·        Refreshing, pleasantly tangy, supported by a soft effervescence.

·        Very good length in the mouth.

 

With this confidential cuvée Vieilles Vignes – Blanc de blancs Grand Cru (2,700 bottles), Jean-Michel Turgy, the producer, proposes us a Champagne of character, to discover absolutely.

 

To enjoy for the apéritif, or during the meal, to accompany a fillet of smoked Lake Léman fera, for example.

 

Champagne Michel Turgy

17 rue de l'Orme

B. P. 26

51 190 Le Mesnil-sur-Oger

France

Tél : +33 (0)3 26 57 53 43

Fax : +33 (0)3 26 57 52 05

mail : infos@champagne-turgy.com

http://www.champagne-turgy.com