In the glass
Aroma: spring flowers, white fruit, citrus, marzipan
Palate: slate, crushed rocks, tremendous energy, saline length
A benchmark single-vineyard Le Mesnil Blanc de Blancs from old vines: spring flowers, white fruit and citrus over marzipan, with slate and crushed-rock energy and saline length.
What it pairs with
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Oysters
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Saline crushed-rock energy meets the brine of oysters. -
Turbot
Slate and citrus frame fine white fish. -
Aged Comte
Marzipan and minerality meet the nutty cheese.
History
Les Chetillons is Pierre Peters' single-vineyard, old-vine Le Mesnil Blanc de Blancs, regarded as one of the great grower Chardonnays of the Cote des Blancs.
- 1971 — Les Chetillons established as the estate's single-vineyard cuvee
Facts
- Producer
- Champagne Pierre Peters
- Grapes
- Chardonnay (100%)
- Classification
- AOC Champagne
- Oak
- Stainless steel; single-vineyard old-vine Le Mesnil Chardonnay, long lees ageing
- ABV
- 12.0%
- Price
- EUR 130 to 200 at retail
- Drinking window
- 8 to 25 from vintage
- First vintage
- 1971
Scores
- Vinous 95 (2013 vintage, reviewed 2021)