In the glass
Aroma: ripe orchard fruit, spice, smoke, white flowers
Palate: vinous depth, fine chalk, savoury length, long finish
A single-parcel varietal Pinot Meunier from ungrafted, own-rooted old vines: ripe orchard fruit and spice over smoke and white flowers, vinous and deep with a savoury length.
What it pairs with
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Roast pork
Vinous depth and spice meet roast pork. -
Mushroom risotto
Smoke and orchard fruit echo earthy mushrooms. -
Charcuterie
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Savoury depth frames cured meats.
History
Les Barres is Chartogne-Taillet's single-parcel cuvee from ungrafted, own-rooted old Pinot Meunier vines, a rarity in Champagne.
- 2005 — Les Barres bottled from the ungrafted old-vine parcel
Facts
- Producer
- Champagne Chartogne-Taillet
- Grapes
- Pinot Meunier (100%)
- Classification
- AOC Champagne
- Oak
- Oak fermentation; ungrafted old-vine Pinot Meunier, single parcel
- ABV
- 12.0%
- Price
- EUR 90 to 140 at retail
- Drinking window
- 5 to 15 from vintage
- First vintage
- 2005
Scores
- Decanter 92 (2013 vintage, reviewed 2021)