In the glass
Aroma: citrus, white flowers, wet chalk, toasted nuts
Palate: intense minerality, saline depth, racy tension, very long finish
A vintage single-terroir Blanc de Blancs from Avize and Cramant: citrus and white flowers over wet chalk and toasted nuts, with intense minerality, saline depth and racy tension.
What it pairs with
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Oysters
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Intense saline minerality meets the brine of oysters. -
Turbot
Racy tension and chalk frame fine white fish. -
Aged Comte
Toasted-nut depth meets the cheese's crystals.
History
Mineral is Agrapart's vintage single-terroir Blanc de Blancs from the same Grand Cru parcels in Avize and Cramant each year, fermented in old oak with wild yeasts.
- 1998 — Mineral established as a vintage single-terroir Blanc de Blancs
Facts
- Producer
- Champagne Pascal Agrapart
- Grapes
- Chardonnay (100%)
- Classification
- AOC Champagne
- Oak
- Old-oak fermentation; indigenous yeasts; single-parcel Avize and Cramant
- ABV
- 12.0%
- Price
- EUR 90 to 140 at retail
- Drinking window
- 8 to 20 from vintage
- First vintage
- 1998
Scores
- Vinous 94 (2014 vintage, reviewed 2022)