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Les Bas Russelets 2021

Grapes
Pinot Noir
Appellation
Champagne AOC
Style
Sparkling
Alcohol
12%

Lieux-dits. 100% Pinot Noir, planted 1981, massal selection.

Single-parcel blanc de noirs from 1981 Pinot Noir. Barrel-fermented, forty months on cork, half a gram of 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.

Terroir
Vineyard
Les Bas Russelets, Damery
Soil
Calcareous
Cellar
Vessel
225 L oak barrels
Aging
40 months in cellar
Dosage
0.5 g/L · Extra-Brut
Filtration
Unfiltered, unfined, no cold stabilisation
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