Champagne Laherte Frères Les Grandes Crayères 2019 (Disg. Nov 2022) domaines-schlumberger Ripe plum and fresh cherry

Ripe plum and fresh cherry flavours are supported by nice mineral tannins which give this wine great elegance

while the component from Les Bionnes in Cramant was vinified in 600-litre oak casks—“barrels for the expression of minerality and tank of the precision

and inky black currant fuse into an exotic amalgam of nighttime on La Rambla in Barcelona

blackberry bush cracked black peppercorns

This is a full-bodied wine of great balance

Champagne Laherte Frères Les Grandes Crayères 2019 (Disg. Nov 2022) domaines-schlumberger Ripe plum and fresh cherryDisgorged November 2022. After the Brut Nature, this stunning Champagne is Aurlien Lahertes second Blanc de Blancs bottling. Les Grandes Crayres showcases Lahertes two most chalky, mineral soils in Coteaux Sud dpernay (crayres means chalk). These parcels of 40 plus year old mass selection vines are situated on a west facing hillside composed of Campanian chalk under 20cm of topsoil. The base wine was fermented with indigenous yeasts in old barrels