Guide VERON des Champagnes 2017
(around 23 euros per bottle)
Sober, elegant and bright bottle.
Aspect:
Golden and crystal-clear.
Remarkable finesse of bubbles.
Fine bead of foam, persistent.
Nose:
Radiant and touching.
Scents of nice ripe apple and pear, citrus fruits and white flowers, punctuated by notes of exotic fruits and highlighted by an iodized and mentholated breath, touching signatures of the Chardonnay, exclusive varietal of the cuvée.
Later, the well defined maturity is revealed, gentle and caressing, with its delightful fragrances of honey and pastries, result of 7 years of patient ageing on laths of the bottles, with autolysis of the prise de mousse yeasts.
Palate:
Tastily balanced opening, underlined by a heady minerality and by the refined effervescence.
The mouth is unveiled, deep and dense, sensual tender embrace, reinforced by the judicious fulfillment of the malolactic fermentation of the base wines and by the generous dosage with 10 g/L of sugar added at disgorgement.
Finish supported by the pure tension, result of the rigorous selection of the first juices (cuvée) during the soft pressing of the grapes.
Very great length on the palate.
With this cuvée Harmonie de Blancs 2008, Jean-Charles Mignon, cellar master of the Champagne House Pierre Mignon, offers us a touching Champagne, melodious and sensual ode to Chardonnay enhanced by the Grands Crus of the Côte des Blancs (Chouilly, Cramant and Avize).
To taste from aperitif to meal, with a cod loin with a paprika crust “à l’armoricaine”, for example.
Family-run House settled in Breuil, in the Surmelin Valley, the Champagne House Pierre Mignon tries its hardest to perpetuate the traditions of excellence of the family passed down through five generations. A 16 hectares vineyard, spread over the best terroirs of Champagne, composed of the three champenois varietals (60% of Meunier, 30% of Pinot Noir and 10% of Chardonnay), allows to produce 450,000 bottles of an inspired range of genuine Champagnes per year.
Champagne Pierre Mignon
5 rue des Grappes d’Or
51 210 Le Breuil
Tel.: +33 (0)3 26 59 22 03
Fax.: +33 (0)3 26 59 26 74
Email: info@pierre-mignon.com
