Champagne Benoit Lahaye "Le Jardin du Gros Pierre" Grand Cru
Art. # 1043If you have a special occasion to celebrate this month - this is your wine!
Benoit Laye is a small, independent producer from Bouzy, one of the villages with grand cru status in Champagne. Together with his horse Tamis, he tends to his vineyards and controls the entire process of making sparkling wine.
Besides being a champagne from a single vineyard, the wine is exceptionally interesting and rare due to the fact that it is made from all seven permitted grape varieties in Champagne.
Even more - in the vineyard planted in the 1920s called “The Garden of the Big Stone” there are other, unknown varieties even to Benoit himself, which makes this elegant and remarkably complex wine a true rarity.
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Benoît Lahaye
Benoît Lahaye is located in the village of Bouzy, classified as Grand Cru, Montagne de Reims. The family has been making Champagne since 1930. The mansion is only 4.8 hectares, of which 3 are in Bouzy, 1 in Ambonnay and the rest in Tauxières. In 2010 they received a certificate as a biodynamic manufacturer from Biodyvin. The plantations are 90% Pinot Noir, with southern and southwestern exposure and an average age of 35-40 years. Less than 40,000 bottles are produced per year. In the winery the intervention is minimal and relies only on wild fermentation. Much of the vinification takes place in oak barrels type Bordeaux (225l) and Burgundy (228l). The winery has large windows so that the wine can "see" the season. The champagne of Benoit and Valérie Lahaye is a real wine of its terroir, with amazing complexity and depth, harmony of freshness and concentration, and ripeness of the fruit.
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Champagne
The Champagne region is located the furthest north compared to all the wine regions of France. The distinctive taste and purity of true champagne is certainly due to the chalky soil and continental growing conditions. Unlike most other wines, what is characteristic of those from Champagne is that the harvests from different years are blended to produce a final product (non-vintage) or different wines from the same harvest are blended - in this case, the wine is vintage and its year is indicated on the label. This ultimately means that the quality of the resulting champagne depends greatly on the balance between the quality of the grapes and the skills of the winemakers, which is why they are also promoted according to the name of the producer. Thus, in Champagne and around the world, names like Krug, Mumm, Bollinger, Veuve Clicquot are well-known, not to mention the well-known brands Dom Perignon, Moët & Chandon, and Taittinger. The grape varieties in this region are Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier, which are present in different proportions in the wines from Champagne. The so-called Blanc de Blanc is often produced, made only from Chardonnay grapes, as well as Blanc de Noir, which is white champagne but made from the red grape Pinot Noir. An interesting and little-known fact is that in Champagne, sparkling rosé is made by blending white and red wine, rather than following the standard for producing rosé wine.
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Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir is the dominant red wine grape of Burgundy, a challenge for every single vine grower and wine producer. It can be found in Germany (as Spätburgunder), Italy (Pino Nero), Chile, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the USA. The wines show a specific aroma of red berries and cherry depending on the vinification method employed - from fresh red cherries in lighter wines to stewed black cherries in weightier examples, many of them also showing hints of earthy flavours.
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