Guide VERON des Champagnes 2020
(around 38 euros per bottle)
Numbered bottle, neat, original and luxurious, proposed in a box with an
ice bucket.
Aspect:
Golden
and brilliant.
Bubbles
of a rare finesse.
Reserved
bead of foam.
Nose:
Radiant,
generous and endless delicacy.
Joyful
scents of candied red and black fruits (strawberry, raspberry, blackcurrant and
blackberry), apple, pear, peach, apricot and grape, coupled with touches of
spices (pepper, vanilla and cinnamon), signatures of the Meunier, exclusive
varietal of the cuvée.
Later,
the cuvée reveals its maturity with
gentle notes of honey, pastries and cocoa, obtained by 4 years of patient
ageing on laths of the bottles.
Palate:
Dense
and balanced opening, thanks to 6 g/L of sugar added during the dosage,
enhanced by the delicious minerality.
Captivating
caress, highlighted by a woody breath thanks to the vinification of 50% of the
base wines in champenois oak barrels.
Deep
finish, sensual and warm, gently underlined by the creamy effervescence.
Very
great length on the palate.
For this cuvée Meunier Vieilles Vignes -
Collection Privée, Sébastien Walasiak, cellar master of the Champagne house
Collet, offers us a bright ode to the Meunier carefully harvested by hand, with
over 50% from an old plot of vine planted in 1921 on the Epernay slopes,
completed by the terroirs of
Festigny, Chigny-les-Roses and Rilly-la-Montagne.
Ideal from aperitif
to meal, with a blanquette of veal, for example.
Created from the
first cooperative of Champagne founded in 1921, the Champagne house Collet was
able to remain true to its pioneering spirit. After equipping itself in 2004,
in Oger, with new modern facilities, extended in 2011, for the production of
its champagnes, it built in 2014, in Aÿ, La Cité du Champagne, unique historic
and cultural site entirely dedicated to wines from Champagne. While its
original range of champagnes logically establishes itself in the world of
gastronomy, the Champagne house Collet is preparing to celebrate with
confidence its hundredth anniversary.
Champagne Collet
14 boulevard Pierre Cheval
CS 30008
51 160 Aÿ
Tel.: +33 (0)3 26 55 15 88
