Lelarge-Pugeot

Les Charmes de Vrigny Extra Brut

The charm and restrained intensity of the Lelarge-Pugeot family captured in a single cuvée. Les Charmes is the premium counterpart to the entry-level Tradition, with fruit dating to the 2010 harvest and with ten years' ageing in bottle, adorning itself with the depth and nuance of time while maintaining its lithe, lifted, playful energy. Elegant notes of green apple join with citrus and fresh baked bread. The bucolic charms of this precious premier cru and its beloved Meunier are on full display in the wine's pastoral palate of wild flowers and herbs and grasses, showing petrichor and orchard fruit as it turns the corner from freshness into tertiary complexity.
France
White
Biodynamic Wine
Vegan

Region:  Vrigny, Montagne de Reims

Appellation:  Champagne Vrigny 1er Cru AOC

Varietal/Blend:  50% Pinot Meunier, 30% Pinot Noir, 20% Chardonnay

ABV:  12.0%

Vineyard & Vine Age:  Bull Swamp and Manilla vineyards in Baw Baw Shire. The vines were planted in 1961 and and 1964 respectively.

Cellar: This wine is fermented with indigenous yeast, spending six months in stainless steel. Bottled in April 2011, aged 10 years on the lees in bottle, and disgorged in May 2021, with 2 g/L dosage and 20 ppm SO2.

CSPC:  871187

Winemakers Note:  []

What the Critics are saying:  []

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Lelarge-Pugeot
Les Charmes de Vrigny Extra Brut

Region:  Vrigny, Montagne de Reims

Appellation:  Champagne Vrigny 1er Cru AOC

France
White
Biodynamic Wine
Vegan
The charm and restrained intensity of the Lelarge-Pugeot family captured in a single cuvée. Les Charmes is the premium counterpart to the entry-level Tradition, with fruit dating to the 2010 harvest and with ten years' ageing in bottle, adorning itself with the depth and nuance of time while maintaining its lithe, lifted, playful energy. Elegant notes of green apple join with citrus and fresh baked bread. The bucolic charms of this precious premier cru and its beloved Meunier are on full display in the wine's pastoral palate of wild flowers and herbs and grasses, showing petrichor and orchard fruit as it turns the corner from freshness into tertiary complexity.

TECHNICAL INFO

Varietal/Blend:  50% Pinot Meunier, 30% Pinot Noir, 20% Chardonnay

ABV:  12.0%

Vineyard:  Lelarge-Pugeot Les Charmes de Vrigny Extra Brut comes from estate vineyards in Vrigny 1er Cru at 80–120 meters altitude. The 40-year-old vines grow in sand and clay-limestone soils over chalk bedrock. Harvested in 2010 with additional Solera wine.

Cellar: This wine is fermented with indigenous yeast, spending six months in stainless steel. Bottled in April 2011, aged 10 years on the lees in bottle, and disgorged in May 2021, with 2 g/L dosage and 20 ppm SO2.

CSPC:  871187

Winemakers Note: []

What the Critics are saying: []

Giovanni Autuori
Calgary + Alberta South

T: 403-971-1898

E: giovanni@vinoalvino.ca

Joe Gurba
Edmonton + Alberta North

T: 780-203-5284

E: joeg@vinoalvino.ca

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TECHNICAL INFO

Country:  France

Region:  Vrigny, Montagne de Reims

Appellation:  Champagne Vrigny 1er Cru AOC

Climate: 

Altitude: 

Soils: 

Varietal/Blend:  50% Pinot Meunier, 30% Pinot Noir, 20% Chardonnay

Fermentation:  Spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts in old oak puncheons.

Ageing: 

Vineyard & Vine Age:  Bull Swamp and Manilla vineyards in Baw Baw Shire. The vines were planted in 1961 and and 1964 respectively.

ABV:  12.0%

Produced Cases:  50

CSPC:  871187

Calgary + Alberta South

Andrew Stewart

403-604-0408

andrew@vinoalvino.ca

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