VINEYARD: Pinot Noir 50%, Pinot Meunier 50% from the Marne valley. Average age of the vines: 40 years. Pinot Noir is late-harvested to enhance the expression of the varietal aromas. A blend of 2002 and 2003 vintage.
WINEMAKING: Grapes are 100% handpicked, destemmed, pressed and vinified as a red wine with full maceration on the skins, fermentation in stainless steel vats with native yeasts. The rich salmon color is obtained from a bleeding operated on the free-running juice. Reserve wine is added up to 10% of the mass. Dosage: 5 gr/Lt.
| APPELLATION |
Champagne Rose’ Aoc |
| VINTAGE |
NV |
| GRAPE COMPOSITION |
50% Pinot Noir, 50% Pinot Meunier |
| TYPE |
White / Sparkling / Dry |
| VINEYARD | Various estate vineyards in the Marne valley all over 30 year old. |
| SOIL |
Light grey siliceous clay with veins of sand over a block of compact limestone. |
| ALCOHOL |
12% |
| PRODUCTION |
35,000 bottles |
| AWARDS | |
| TASTING NOTES |
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| WINE MAKING |
Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier grapes are hand-picked the first or second week of September, crushed in a pneumatic soft press and subsequently fermented at controlled temperature into stainless steel tanks with maceration on the skins. A rose’ wine is then obtained through the ancestral ‘saignee’ technique. The rose’ still wine is kept at low temperature on its lees until February following the harvest, when it’s bottled for a secondary fermentation, to produce natural effervescence and carbonic pressure (4 years sur-lattes). 5 gr/lt dosage. |
| FOOD MATCH |
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| Producer Home page: |
BOULARD - Mailly Grand Cru Champagne |
| WEBSITE: | www.champagne-boulard.fr |
| WINE REGION: |  CHAMPAGNE |
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