Les Empreintes from Laherte Frères with my quick ct-note:
Clear and bright medium light golden color.
Clean and intensive nose of citric fruits, some complex greenness and smokiness with lees aging notes but such an inviting and refreshing scent.
The palate has a bright laser like and mouth drying acidity which makes you start salivating. The flavors are competing with each other. On the back you have the complex citric flavors with supporting or trying at least is some oak and smokiness and autolytic notes, while the most dominating flavors are the rocky yet a bit chalky minerality which carries the wine to the other sphere!
Extraordinary because of the complexity and intensity of different yet harmonizing flavors, long length, yet the balance is built towards the tart yet refreshing acidity. This is a prime example why some want to do malo in champagne. I like this tremendously but not for everybody! This was the non dosé edition
Grape-varieties and vineyard:
40%Chardonnay (1/3 of Chardonnay muscaté). Les Chemins d’Epernay. Clay soils with a little silt stratum in surface. Chalky subsoil. Plots planted in 1957.
40% Pinot Noir. Les Rouges Maisons. Soil fairly deep with an important presence of clay, flints and schists. Chalky subsoils. Plots planted in 1983.
20 % Pinot Meunier. Les Monts Bougies. Soft soil with a dominant of silt and marl. Limestone subsoils. Plots planted in 1965.
40% Pinot Noir. Les Rouges Maisons. Soil fairly deep with an important presence of clay, flints and schists. Chalky subsoils. Plots planted in 1983.
20 % Pinot Meunier. Les Monts Bougies. Soft soil with a dominant of silt and marl. Limestone subsoils. Plots planted in 1965.
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