Champagne Louise Brison 'Rose de la Cote des Bar' Brut Nature Champagne 2019

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Champagne Louise Brison 'Rose de la Cote des Bar' Brut Nature Champagne 2019For her exuberant and vinous rospure Pinot Noir always from a single vintageDelphine employs whole bunch semi carbonic maceration for five or six days, followed by nine months of aging in used barrels before bottling for secondary fermentation. Tangy, spicy, and juicy, this wine dances on the palate, its bright acidity counterbalancing notes of fresh jam while its tensile Kimmeridgian minerality provides a sturdy base.

[Note: he labels this wine as “Melon”—a nod to the fact that his vines here are the local Jura mutation of Chardonnay known as “Melon à Queue Rouge

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5% Cabernet Franc

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Height: 220 mm | 8

but all are made in the vein of Le Puy’s iconic “Barthélemy”: aging two years in old 228-liter barrels on the gross lees which are stirred in (“dynamized”) regularly

this ferments with 20% whole clusters and spends 18 months in a combination of barriques and demi-muids

The modest 10% new oak is all but invisible

and the saignée and first-press juice are vinified separately

and the wine spent two years in used 600-liter demi-muids after a natural fermentation in concrete

shallow soils and late-ripening microclimate produce the most structured and powerful red wine in Sylvain’s cellar—as it was with Jean-Marc and Albert

this is both more blatant in its minerality and more multilayered

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