In the glass
Aroma: ripe citrus, white flowers, toasted nuts, chalk
Palate: vinous oak-framed depth, saline minerality, texture, long finish
A single-vineyard Sezannais Blanc de Blancs: ripe citrus and white flowers over toasted nuts and chalk, with vinous oak-framed depth, saline minerality and a long finish.
What it pairs with
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Roast chicken
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Vinous oak-framed depth meets roasted poultry. -
Aged Comte
Toasted-nut depth meets the cheese's crystals. -
Grilled langoustines
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Saline chalk meets sweet shellfish.
History
Les Pierrieres is Olivier Collin's single-vineyard Blanc de Blancs from chalky Sezannais soils, oak-fermented in a textural, low-dosage style.
- 2004 — Collin bottles his first single-vineyard cuvees
Facts
- Producer
- Champagne Ulysse Collin
- Grapes
- Chardonnay (100%)
- Classification
- AOC Champagne
- Oak
- Oak-barrel fermentation; single-vineyard chalky Sezannais; low dosage
- ABV
- 12.5%
- Price
- EUR 90 to 150 at retail
- Drinking window
- now to 12 from release
- First vintage
- 2004
Scores
- Vinous 93