Guide VERON des Champagnes 2018
(around 20 euros per bottle)
Seductive bottle, with feminine shapes for this cuvée homage to the first wine grower of
the family.
Aspect:
White gold, brilliant.
Refined bubbles.
Fine bead of foam.
Nose:
endless and sensual aromatic melody.
Touching fragrances of candied citrus fruits, apple, pear and
exotic fruits, heady characteristic sign of the Chardonnay, exclusive varietal
of the Champagne.
Later, the nose becomes soft, with scents of honey, expressions
of the maturity of the Champagne, result of the patient ageing on laths of the
bottles (4 years) before riddling and manual disgorgement on the spot.
Palate:
Pure opening, reinforced by the adjusted dosage with only 4.5
g/L of sugar added at disgorgement, highlighted by the delicious minerality of
the calcareous soils.
The mouth is unveiled deep, warm and silky, with subtle woody
notes and toasted thanks to the vinification and the ageing of a part of the
base wines in 205 litres new champenois
oak barrels.
Lively and life-giving finish, barely spicy, underlined by
the creamy effervescence.
Remarkable length on the palate.
For this Cuvée Ismérie created in 2010, Emmanuel Verrier, its
producer, selected with care grapes harvested by hand in old plots of vines of
the facing south terroirs of Etoges
and Fèrebrianges (hillsides of the Petit Morin) to reveal the elegance of a
well-defined Champagne, fruit of the blending of the base wines from three
years.
To taste from aperitif to meal, with a perch and small
vegetables, for example.
Wine growers from father to son since 1860, the Champagne
House Verrier & fils, directed by Emmanuel and Laurence Verrier since 2009,
continues in Etoges its endless quest for excellence. A vineyard of 5 hectares,
composed of 35 plots between Etoges and Epernay, cultivated with care in the
respect of the environment, and a controlled œnology with vinifications in oak
barrels and in vats, give birth to around 30,000 bottles per year of a range of
terroir Champagnes.
Champagne Verrier & fils
Rue des Rochelles
51270 Etoges
Tel.: +33 (0)3 26 59
32 42
Email:
champagne.verrier@orange.fr
