Sparkling Wines

REGION: Champagne VARIETY: 100% Chardonnay APPELLATION: Coteaux champenois VINEYARDED HECTARE: SOIL: deep chalk with clay and marl AVERAGE AGE OF VINEYARDS: 50 years VINEYARDING: lutte raisonnée, recoltant-manipulant HARVEST: Manual WINE-MAKING: Pressing followed by decanting for 24 hours, alcoholic and malolactic fermentation in oak barrels AGING: In barrels for 18 months CLARIFICATION:...

"The 2013 Extra-Brut Clos des Goisses is fabulous. Readers will have to be patient, as the 2013 is in no mood to show all its cards. The late harvest produced a bristling, intensely saline Clos des Goisses that will require years to be at its best. Even so, its depth, textural resonance and finish are so evocative as to what the future holds. The 2013 is a positively stunning Champagne and...