Guide VERON des Champagnes 2020
(around 20
euros per bottle)
Original and festive bottle, decorated with the emblem of the brand, As
a nod to music.
Aspect:
Gold,
brilliant.
Refined
bubbles.
Reserved
bead of bubbles.
Nose:
Radiant
complexity, source of intense pleasure, reinforced by the long period between
disgorgement and shipment.
The
aromas of nice ripe red and black fruits, signatures of the majority of Pinot
Noir (70%) delicately mingle with scents of apple, pear and citrus fruits,
characteristic signs of the Chardonnay (30%).
Later,
the champagne becomes more confident with gentle touches of honey and pastries,
thanks to 4 years of patient ageing of the bottles, on laths, before riddling
and disgorgement.
Palate:
Splendid
purity at the opening, revelation of the rigorous selection of the very first
juices (tête de cuvée) during the
pressing of the grapes, underlined by the outstanding minerality.
Improbable
balance, adjusted with sensitivity by the timely stop of the malolactic
fermentation of the base wines and by the accurate dosage with 8 g/L of grape
sugar added at disgorgement.
Beautiful
vitality at the end.
Remarkable
length on the palate.
For this Brut Tradition, Arnaud Duval arranged the inspired blending of
vintages with 75% of wines from 2013 and 25% of reserve wines aged in
continuous blending since 2009, to offer us a radiant interpretation of the
Grand Cru terroir of Verzenay.
To taste from aperitif to meal, with a gourmet salad, foie gras and salted gizzards, for
example.
Fifth generation of vine growers
and third generation of producers of champagnes, Arnaud Duval cultivates with
care his 5.5 hectares vineyard certified High Environmental Value and
Sustainable Viticulture in Champagne, composed of old plots of vine in the Grand
Cru of Verzenay. An attentive viticulture on soils covered with grass and
ploughed, without using herbicides, and an accurate and creative vinification,
without malolactic fermentation, in his new fermenting room of Sillery, are the
bases of a range of joyful champagnes.
Champagne Duval-Charpentier
11, allée Robert Delloye - ZAC Sillery 2
51 500 Sillery
Tel.: +33 (0)6 77 00 11 72
Email: champagne.duval-charpentier@orange.fr
