In the glass
Aroma: chestnut, coconut, fresh bread, citrus
Palate: firm muscular structure, chalk, long lingering flavour, reductive nuance
Ruinart's prestige cuvee, a Grand Cru-only pure-Chardonnay Blanc de Blancs in a firm, muscular, reductive style with chalk and long, lingering flavour.
What it pairs with
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Oysters
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Reductive chalk and citrus meet the brine of oysters. -
Turbot
Muscular structure and minerality frame fine white fish. -
Aged Comte
Chestnut and bread notes meet the nutty cheese.
History
Dom Ruinart, named for the Benedictine monk Thierry Ruinart, debuted with the 1959 vintage as a Grand Cru Chardonnay prestige cuvee aged long in the house's deep chalk crayeres.
- 1959 — First Dom Ruinart Blanc de Blancs vintage produced
Facts
- Producer
- Ruinart
- Grapes
- Chardonnay (100%)
- Classification
- AOC Champagne
- Oak
- Reductive winemaking; Grand Cru Chardonnay, long lees ageing
- ABV
- 12.0%
- Price
- EUR 200 to 320 at retail
- Drinking window
- 10 to 30 from vintage
- First vintage
- 1959
Scores
- Vinous 95 (2009 vintage, reviewed 2022)