In the glass
Aroma: citrus, white flowers, toasted nuts, chalk
Palate: stately depth, creamy texture, saline minerality, long finish
A stately old-vine Cramant Blanc de Blancs fermented in old oak without malolactic: citrus and white flowers over toasted nuts and chalk, with creamy texture and saline mineral depth.
What it pairs with
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Oysters
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Saline chalk meets the brine of oysters. -
Turbot
Creamy depth and minerality frame fine white fish. -
Aged Comte
Toasted-nut depth meets the nutty cheese.
History
Fleur de Passion is Diebolt-Vallois' prestige cuvee from old Cramant vines, fermented in old oak and made without malolactic fermentation.
- 1992 — Fleur de Passion established as the estate's old-vine prestige cuvee
Facts
- Producer
- Champagne Diebolt-Vallois
- Grapes
- Chardonnay (100%)
- Classification
- AOC Champagne
- Oak
- Old-oak fermentation; old-vine Grand Cru Cramant; no malolactic
- ABV
- 12.0%
- Price
- EUR 100 to 160 at retail
- Drinking window
- 8 to 25 from vintage
- First vintage
- 1992
Scores
- Decanter 93