Lelarge-Pugeot

Millésime 2008 Extra Brut

2008 was such a precious, generous vintage in Champagne, translated here in equal measures of Meunier, Chardonnay, and Pinot Noir. This trinity is perfectly balanced, showing the rounded edges and nuanced intensity acquired over a decade and a half ageing. The Millésime 2008 reveals bewitching, raisinated, almost port-like oxidative notes jewel-set in a soaring structure of bright citrus fruits too numerous to recount. Fans of well aged, tertiary, rich Champagnes will adore the molasses like minerality and lofty curviture of this wine’s orbit over the palate, lingering on the back-palate horizon with a precious sherry-like nuttiness like a west-coast sunset.
France
White
Biodynamic Wine
Vegan

Region:  Vrigny, Montagne de Reims

Appellation:  Champagne Vrigny 1er Cru AOC

Varietal/Blend:  33% Meunier, 33% Pinot Noir, 34% 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: Lelarge-Pugeot Millésime 2008 Extra Brut is fermented with indigenous yeast, spending six months in stainless steel. Bottled in April 2009, aged over 10 years on lees, and disgorged in June 2020, with 2 g/L dosage and 25 ppm SO2.

CSPC:  871192

Winemakers Note:  []

What the Critics are saying:  []

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Lelarge-Pugeot
Millésime 2008 Extra Brut

Region:  Vrigny, Montagne de Reims

Appellation:  Champagne Vrigny 1er Cru AOC

France
White
Biodynamic Wine
Vegan
2008 was such a precious, generous vintage in Champagne, translated here in equal measures of Meunier, Chardonnay, and Pinot Noir. This trinity is perfectly balanced, showing the rounded edges and nuanced intensity acquired over a decade and a half ageing. The Millésime 2008 reveals bewitching, raisinated, almost port-like oxidative notes jewel-set in a soaring structure of bright citrus fruits too numerous to recount. Fans of well aged, tertiary, rich Champagnes will adore the molasses like minerality and lofty curviture of this wine’s orbit over the palate, lingering on the back-palate horizon with a precious sherry-like nuttiness like a west-coast sunset.

TECHNICAL INFO

Varietal/Blend:  33% Meunier, 33% Pinot Noir, 34% Chardonnay

ABV:  12.0%

Vineyard:  Lelarge-Pugeot Millésime 2008 Extra Brut comes from estate vineyards in Vrigny 1er Cru at 80–120 meters altitude. The vines, over 50 years old, grow in sand and clay-limestone soils over chalk bedrock in a continental climate with oceanic influence.

Cellar: Lelarge-Pugeot Millésime 2008 Extra Brut is fermented with indigenous yeast, spending six months in stainless steel. Bottled in April 2009, aged over 10 years on lees, and disgorged in June 2020, with 2 g/L dosage and 25 ppm SO2.

CSPC:  871192

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:  33% Meunier, 33% Pinot Noir, 34% 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:  871192

Calgary + Alberta South

Andrew Stewart

403-604-0408

andrew@vinoalvino.ca

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