1er Cru Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut, Champagne Lelarge-Pugeot NV
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Why this wine
A grower Champagne from a single Premier Cru village, farmed organically and ploughed by horse, at the price the large houses ask for a blended non-vintage. Five years on the lees gives it biscuit depth without blunting the citrus edge. Extra Brut, so nothing is hidden behind sugar.
At a glance
- Grape
- Chardonnay
- Region
- Champagne, France
- Alcohol
- 12.50%
- Body
- Medium
- Acidity
- High
- Sweetness
- Dry
- Drink
- Drink now (1-3 yrs)
- Pairs with
- Seafood, Salads, Cheese
How it tastes
Biscuity and citrus-scented, opening onto wet stone, lemon, ripe pear and peach with a twist of orange peel. Crisp acidity runs the length of a gentle mousse, and the finish is long, dry and finely balanced. Chardonnay 100%.
The producer
Lelarge-Pugeot is a boutique grower in Vrigny, a Premier Cru village in the north-east of the Montagne de Reims, where the family has made wine since 1789 and Champagne since 1930; it is run today by seventh-generation Dominique Lelarge with his wife Dominique Pugeot and their children. The estate is eight hectares across 42 parcels of sandy loam and calcareous marl on gently rolling hills at 150 metres, ploughed by horse, planted with grasses between the rows and certified organic in 2013; this cuvee draws on five Vrigny Premier Cru parcels, hand-harvested, the Chardonnay pruned by the Chablis method. The grapes were pressed in a pneumatic press and settled at length, fermented in stainless steel on indigenous yeasts using a pied de cuve, put through malolactic conversion, bottled the following April and aged five years on its lees.
Food and drinking
Serve at 8–10°C. Good with oysters, dressed crab, sushi and a green salad with goat's cheese. Drinking well now and capable of a decade or more in bottle. Suitable for vegetarians and vegans.