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Vieilles Vignes Extra Brut Mareuil-sur-Aÿ Champagne Marc Hébrart NV

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Grapes Pinot Noir, Chardonnay
Colour White
Origin France, Champagne
Village Mareuil-sur-Aÿ
ABV 12.5%

£43.95 £38.95 by the bottle
£39.95 £36.95 in a case of 6*

L&S (Nov 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.

75% PN from Mareuil, 25% Chardonnay also from Mareuil. Old vines, massale selection Mareuil-Sur-Aÿ 1er Cru; All old vine, massale sélection from Faubourg d’Enfer, Pruche, Cotes, Haute de Varille, Croix Blanches-Maladrie, Beauregard, Ramonette, Buisson Saint Loup, Sente de Demoiselles Malo: Yes élevage: Stainless Steel sur latte: 48 MonthsL&S (Sep 2022)

80% Pinot Noir and 20% Chardonnay. From lieux-dits Faubourg d'Enfer, Pruches, Haut-Varille, Croix Blanche, Maladrie, Beauregard, Ramonette, Buisson St-Loup, Cotes and Sente des Demoiselles. From vintages 2018 and 2019. Disgorged 14 September 2022.
I love the ripe, creamy, citrus-drenched tang of this which smells like Greek yogurt swirled through with caramelised butter. Long and insistent bringing white and jasmine flowers on the finish and a sense of stones right at the end.
Drinking range: 2024 - 2029 Rating: 16.5 Tamlyn Currin - www.JancisRobinson.com (May 2024)

Crafted from old vines of massal selection planting on a south-facing site in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, the NV Brut Premier Cru Mes Favorites Vieilles Vignes offers up an elegant, complex bouquet of white peach, pear, herbs, lemon oil, pastry and tangerine. Fleshier and deeper than its siblings, it's medium to full-bodied, vinous and charming and has a delicate, vinous core of fruit that leads to a long, saline and slightly anise-inflected finish. This blend of 80% Pinot Noir and 20% Chardonnay (based on the 2019 and 2020 vintages in equal parts) was disgorged with a dosage of 5.5 grams per liter. Drinking range: 2024 - 2040 Rating: 93 Yohan Castaing, www.robertparker.com (Oct 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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