Epinette de Champagne 2021

Lieux-dits. 100% Chardonnay, planted 1982, massal selection.

Single-parcel blanc de blancs from Chardonnay planted in 1982 in Les Bas Russelets, the same vineyard as the Pinot Noir cuvée of that name. Five-hundred-litre oak, forty months on cork, no dosage.

Fermented in oak with indigenous yeasts, aged on the lees with spontaneous malolactic fermentation. Disgorgement liqueur made from the house’s own barrel-aged wines and cane sugar. No filtration, fining, cold stabilisation or chaptalisation.