Sale Price:
$214.00
Original Price:
$250.00
Region: Champagne
Variety: Chardonnay (100%)
Vintage: 2017
Country: France
The Wine
Terre de Vertus is one of three single-terroir Blanc de Blancs produced at this estate and is certainly the most famous. It is from a parcel of vines on the chalky mid-slope of Vertus, traversing the 1er Cru lieux-dits of Les Barillers and Les Faucherets. These sites produce intensely mineral wines that recall the best of Le Mesnil (to the north) in their chalky raciness and drive.
This fermented naturally, with roughly 60% fermented and aged in neutral barrique and the other 40% in large Stockinger casks. Malolactic conversion began spontaneously, and the wines were left on their lees for nearly a year. After the second fermentation, the wine aged in bottle for another six years before being disgorged. There is no dosage in order to respect the purity of the terroir. The result is one of the most distinctive and mineral wines of the entire Champagne region—and one of the benchmark wines of the great grower movement.
Since the mid-‘90s, this wine has always been non-dosé—long before it was fashionable.
Cellared Says
Textbook mineral drive with zero dosage clarity. A cellar classic for BdB purists—beautiful now, even better with 5–10 years.
Wine Reviews
“The 2017 Brut Nature Blanc de Blancs Terre de Vertus 1er Cru is creamy, open-knit and quite seductive. Readers will and a generous, sensual Champagne with plenty of early appeal. Vinication and aging in oak softens the contours. Dried pear, crushed flowers, mint and chamomile build beautifully over time. This is a fine effort in a very challenging year. No dosage.”
93 points, Antonio Galloni, Vinous
“This has some concentration and depth, for sure. Slick texture with a core of lime and oyster shell, some fino sherry characters, baked apple, cinnamon spice uplifting, some sour dough notes and preserved lemon. While rich, the acidity is briny and bright, cooling and slips through any generosity to add polish and shine. Almost chewy texture.”
95 points, Mike Bennie, The Wine Front
Region: Champagne
Variety: Chardonnay (100%)
Vintage: 2017
Country: France
The Wine
Terre de Vertus is one of three single-terroir Blanc de Blancs produced at this estate and is certainly the most famous. It is from a parcel of vines on the chalky mid-slope of Vertus, traversing the 1er Cru lieux-dits of Les Barillers and Les Faucherets. These sites produce intensely mineral wines that recall the best of Le Mesnil (to the north) in their chalky raciness and drive.
This fermented naturally, with roughly 60% fermented and aged in neutral barrique and the other 40% in large Stockinger casks. Malolactic conversion began spontaneously, and the wines were left on their lees for nearly a year. After the second fermentation, the wine aged in bottle for another six years before being disgorged. There is no dosage in order to respect the purity of the terroir. The result is one of the most distinctive and mineral wines of the entire Champagne region—and one of the benchmark wines of the great grower movement.
Since the mid-‘90s, this wine has always been non-dosé—long before it was fashionable.
Cellared Says
Textbook mineral drive with zero dosage clarity. A cellar classic for BdB purists—beautiful now, even better with 5–10 years.
Wine Reviews
“The 2017 Brut Nature Blanc de Blancs Terre de Vertus 1er Cru is creamy, open-knit and quite seductive. Readers will and a generous, sensual Champagne with plenty of early appeal. Vinication and aging in oak softens the contours. Dried pear, crushed flowers, mint and chamomile build beautifully over time. This is a fine effort in a very challenging year. No dosage.”
93 points, Antonio Galloni, Vinous
“This has some concentration and depth, for sure. Slick texture with a core of lime and oyster shell, some fino sherry characters, baked apple, cinnamon spice uplifting, some sour dough notes and preserved lemon. While rich, the acidity is briny and bright, cooling and slips through any generosity to add polish and shine. Almost chewy texture.”
95 points, Mike Bennie, The Wine Front
