Champagne Vilmart & Cie - Grande Réserve 1er Cru Brut

Champagne Vilmart & Cie - Grande Réserve 1er Cru BrutVilmart & Cie looks back at a long history of grape growing and winemaking. It was founded as rcoltant manipulant house in 1890 by Dsir Vilmart, in the village of Rilly la Montagne. Today, Laurent Champs, the fifth generation of the family, oversees the domaine. The estate is located in the western end of the Grand Montagne and most of the holdings here are in the Premier Cru of Rilly La Montagne with a few small blocks in neighboring Villers

Committing to the traditional cycles of brewing sake in the winter and harvesting the rice in the summer

it can be aged for up to 10 years

his father practiced biodynamic viticulture and Laurent continues in this vein

the Cantina Cleto Chiarli

clay-calcareous and clay-ferrous

vintage after vintage

Pierre Perrin

searching California for those rare and exceptional vineyards where climate

in the old Champagne dialect

non-native varieties

Further aging takes place in bottle: 9 months for Crianza

Corbières