Guide VERON des Champagnes 2019
(around 149 euros per bottle)
Organic champagne
Mythical champagne
Sober and neat bottle.
Aspect:
Golden, brilliant.
Refined bubbles.
Creamy tears.
Nose:
Captivating aromatic harmony, ceaselessly
being renewed.
Radiant aromas of honey and then of roasted
coffee, characteristic signs of the fullness of the cuvée obtained by over 6 years of ageing on laths of the bottles,
with two « poignettages » (in order to keep yeasts suspended), before
riddling and disgorgement.
Later, the bouquet lights up with notes of
white fruits and exotic fruits enhanced by the vinification made by the
indigenous yeasts (yeasts from the terroir),
signatures of the Chardonnay harvested at perfect ripeness on very old plots of
vine (over 65 years old) of the Grands Crus of the Côte des Blancs.
Palate:
Vertiginous purity, obtained by
the selection of the best juices during the pressing and by the minimalist
dosage with only 4 g/L of sugar added at disgorgement.
The mouth becomes caressing, ample
and warm, perhaps thanks to the vinification and the ageing in barrels for 10
months, with bâtonnages.
Tasty finish, punctuated by
spices and highlighted by the minerality of the chalk.
Endless length on the palate.
With this Cuvée des Caudalies
Millésime 2010 produced without filtration, Erick De Sousa was able to tame the
particular alchemy of this great year 2010 to offer us a tremendous champagne.
To taste during gourmet meals,
with a farm-fresh poultry, oyster mushrooms and sweet potatoes, for example.
Resolutely committed to an
ecological approach, certified Viticulture Biologique since 2010 and Demeter
(biodynamy) since 2013, Erick De Sousa tries its hardest to enhance the terroirs of Champagne. While the third
generation brings its dynamism with the arrival of Charlotte, Julie and
Valentin in the wine estate, a gentle and controlled œnology reveals the
outstanding soul of the grapes carefully harvested by hand in the old plots of
the vineyard of which soils are ploughed.
Champagne De Sousa
12 place Léon Bourgeois
51 190 Avize
Tel.: +33 (0)3 26 57 53 29
Email: contact@champagnedesousa.com
