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MARC HÉBRART Rosé Extra Brut 1er Cru, Lea & Sandeman

MARC HÉBRART

Rosé Extra Brut 1er Cru

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Grapes Chardonnay, Pinot Noir
Colour Rosé
Origin France, Champagne
Classification 1er Cru
ABV 12.5%

55% Chardonnay, 38.5% Pinot Noir plus 6.5% red wine for colour not aroma. From Marieul-sur-Aÿ premier cru. Vintages 2019 and 2020. Disgorged 9 February 2023.
There is a comforting curve to this wine that is almost, but not quite, plump. It's liquorice, marshmallow and roses, which sounds as if the wine is sweet when it's not – it's bone dry. It's flush with fruity but not fruity. Cherry blossom. Ultra-fine bubbles. Something very honest about this. It tastes as if the wine made from the terroir hasn't been in any way obscured by the champagne winemaking. Drinking range: 2024 - 2028 Rating: 17 Tamlyn Currin - www.JancisRobinson.com (May 2024)

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65% chardonnay, 29% pinot noir, 6% pinot noir red wine, all from Mareuil-sur-Aÿ; 80% 2019 and 20% 2018; 6.5g/L dosage of MCR; disgorged January 2022; 22,000 bottles

Jean-Paul Hébrart produces red wine from two parcels of pinot noir in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, matured for two years in barriques. 'I want to produce a very fresh style of rosé, which is why I use so much chardonnay in the blend and such a small volume of red wine,' he explains. 'Mareuil-sur-Aÿ pinot noir provides elegance, while maturation in barriques furnishes tannin and colour. 2019 was a very niche vintage, more complex and higher in quality than 2018 as the harvest was not so high in quantity but with perfect maturity and full ripeness like 2022.' Rosé now represents 20% of his production and in the 2022 base he bottled a record 30,000 bottles out of a total of 170,000.

Mareuil pinot noir is perfectly adapted for elegant rosé (as evidenced not least by neighbours Billecart-Salmon and Philipponnat), and rises to magnificent effect in the attentive and masterful style of Jean-Paul Hébrart. This is a pretty rosé of eloquent, pale salmon hue and beautiful freshness of strawberries, morello cherries and raspberries, with a rose petal lift and pink grapefruit tang. Fine chalk minerality and gracefully lifted yet perfectly ripe acidity glide through a long finish. Fantastic.

Tasted 2023 Rating: 95 Tyson Stelzer - The Champagne Guide

No wonder the Rosé Brut is such an integral product (a good fifth of the production) for Marc Hebrart: the style is stylistically perfected and utterly charming. Unconventionally, Jean-Paul Hebrart ages the red-wine component (6% of the total) in oak for a whole year. Here, the base year is 2021, which gets complemented by 2020 and 2019 reserve wines and a splash of red wine. The wine is delicate in both its colour and aromatics, because Jean-Paul wants the red wine perfectly integrated. Beautiful redcurrant and strawberry fruit, with pencil shavings and peach adding to the delicious whole. Appetising, vinous and fruity wine. Rosé 1er cru – Tirage 2021 50% Chardonnay Mareuil-Sur-Aÿ 44% Pinot noir Mareuil-Sur-Aÿ 6% Mareuil rouge Mareuil rouge : Pinot noir vinifié en fût de chêne pendant 1 an. Dosage BRUT MCR : 6.5 g/L – EXTRA BRUT MCR : 3.5 g/L Rating: 92 Essi Avellan MW, Club Oenologique (Jun 2024)

The NV Brut Rosé is a very pretty, effusive Champagne. Light in color but with gorgeous depth, the Rosé is a charmer. Cranberry, white pepper, mint, crushed rocks and slate give this its dynamic upper register. The blend is 60% Chardonnay and 40% Pinot Noir from Mareuil-Sur-Aÿ, but the Pinot is quite strong in this release. Dosage is 3.5 grams per liter. Disgorged: June 15, 2021. Drinking range: 2023 - 2028 Rating: 92 Antonio Galloni, www.vinous.com (Nov 2023)

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'.

Pink bubbles

Pink bubbles - how delightfully decadent is that? And it doesn't come more delightfully decadent and pink and fizzy than Rosé Champagne, Prosecco and English Sparkling Rosé.

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