LEGRAS

2000 Cuvée Saint Vincent Brut Grand Cru Chouilly Champagne RL Legras

Grapes Chardonnay
Colour White
Origin France, Champagne
Village Chouilly
Classification Grand Cru
ABV 12%

Very dark, powerful wine a bit unexpected from a light soil like Chouilly. Individual style with nuttiness and dry, intense, mineral-impelled tones. Still promising, and already with fine oiliness. (One of Juhlin's top 20 prestige Champagnes.) Drinking range: 2015 - 2020 Rating: 93 Decanter Magazine (Oct 2014)


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Champagne R&L Legras

The Legras family has a history in Chouilly that goes back to the sixteenth century, and the association with viticulture can be traced back Honoré Legras who bought vines there in 1808. In the 1950s his descendants, brothers René and Lucien, set up as a récoltant-manipulant and in 1972 changed to negociant-manipulant since they were buying grapes to supplement what they grew on their on five hectares. Gérard Barbier, an employee of the brothers, took over and ran the house for over thirty years, eventually handing over to his son Julien.

Legras make Chardonnays from the Grand Cru classified village of Chouilly at the beginning of Côte des Blancs (except the rosé, coloured by red wine they source in Ambonnay). Well known and highly-respected in France it is used by many top-flight restaurants as 'house' champagne, including the Tour d'Argent and Guy Savoy. The house style exalts the softer and creamy style of Chouilly Chardonnay which is so often more approachable than the firmer wines of the other Côte des Blancs villages.

L&S's association with R & L Legras goes a long way back - as it was the house Champagne of Steven Spurrier's shop 'Les Caves de La Madeleine' in Paris when Charles Lea worked there. Since the original L&S shop was on the site of the London 'Caves de la Madeleine', Legras Champagne was already known in the neighbourhood and it seemed sensible to go on offering it - and it has been on the list ever since.

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