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2019 NOCES DE CRAIE Extra Brut Grand Cru Champagne Marc Hébrart, Lea & Sandeman

NOCES DE CRAIE

2019 Extra Brut Grand Cru Champagne Marc Hébrart

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Grapes Chardonnay, Pinot Noir
Colour White
Origin France, Champagne
Classification Grand Cru
ABV 12.5%

Disgorged as an extra-brut with 3.5 grams per liter of dosage, the 2019 Extra-Brut Blanc de Noirs Grand Cru Noces de Craie reveals a ripe, pure bouquet of spices, white flowers, ripe orchard fruits and pastry. Medium to full-bodied, rich and vinous, it has a fleshy core of fruit, bright acids, a pinpoint mousse and a saline, delicate mid-palate, concluding with a long, delicately bitter, gastronomic finish. This is 100% Pinot Noir from a massal selection planted in the commune of Aÿ. Drinking range: 2024 - 2044 Rating: 94 Yohan Castaing, www.robertparker.com (Oct 2024)

*Case price discount: Mix any 12 bottles of wine (or 9 litre equivalent) or 6 bottles of Champagne, Spirits, Sweet Wine or Fortified (4.5 litres) to get the discounted 'case price' for each bottle.

Jean-Paul Hebrart crafted this blanc de noirs cuvée first from the 2012 harvest, and he makes it only in the very best of Pinot Noir years. The 2019 iteration is one of very finest yet, a year when Grand Cru Aÿ lieux-dits Cheuzelles, Longchamps, Pierre Robert, Pruche and Chauffour made it to the blend. Brightly shiny, pristine fruit on the expressive nose, all on vibrant red fruit. On the palate, it holds back some more, bringing forward its impeccable concentration and built-to-last structure. Worth cellaring for even more goodness to come. 100% Pinot Noir Ay Grand Cru : Cheuzelles, Longchamp, Pierre Robert, Pruche, Chauffour Coeur de Cuvée - Sélection Massale Dosage MCR Extra Brut 4 gr/l Rating: 94 Essi Avellan MW, Club Oenologique (Jun 2024)

Champagne Marc Hébrart

Marc Hébrart started making his own Champagne in 1962, and the domaine is now run by Jean-Paul, who took over in 1997. Jean-Paul tries to add to the family holdings every year, believing that even at current prices it's still a good long-term bet. He's currently running 16 hectares, 8 ha of Pinot in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, Chardonnay in Oiry, Avize, Chouilly and Cramant, and more Pinot in Louvois and Aÿ - as well as the Clos le Léon in Dizy: in total 80 parcels in 11 villages.

The vineyards are farmed sustainably, with as little input as possible. Vinification is by parcel to give the widest possible palette when it comes to blending, and or course allowing for single-vineyard releases like the Clos Léon, a rare walled Clos in the village of Dizy. Most of the Champagnes are made in stainless steel, but since 2004 there has been a barrel-fermented cuvée which blends some of his Chardonnays on the Côte de Blancs with some of his best Pinot Noirs to the north of the Marne - 'Rive Droite-Rive Gauche'.

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