Guide VERON des Champagnes 2016
(around 82
euros per bottle)
Champagne Mythique
Numbered bottle, original and refined.
Aspect :
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Pale gold, decorated with
bright green glints.
·
Bubbles of a rare finesse.
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Elegant bead of bubbles,
persistent.
Nose :
·
Initially shy, it then reveals
an endless universe of pleasure.
·
Generous aromas of red and
black fruits (blackberry, strawberry, cherry and raspberry), punctuated by soft
spices (liquorice and cinnamon), signatures of the Pinot Noir (75%).
·
Later, the finesse of the
Chardonnay (25%) is revealed with its heady fragrances of citrus fruits and
white flowers, coupled with touches of exotic fruits, perhaps the result of the
alcoholic fermentation of the base wines at 16°C.
Palate :
·
Pure opening, allowed by the rigorous selection of the
first juices (cuvée), during the soft
pressing of the grapes, enhanced by the vibrant minerality.
·
The mouth then becomes deep and warm, with touches of
honey and pastries, evolving towards chocolate and roasted coffee, translations
of the well defined maturity of the cuvée
obtained by 9 years of ageing on laths of the bottles before disgorgement.
·
Delicious finish, carried by a mentholated breath.
·
Rare length on the palate.
With this cuvée Les Echansons Millésime 2004 of
which only 6701 bottles have been produced, Hervé Dantan, Chef de Cave of the
Champagne House Mailly Grand Cru, and Sébastien Moncuit, his successor in 2013,
were able to blend the best plots of the Grand Cru of Mailly-Champagne
separately vinified, to offer us this extraordinary Champagne.
To taste from aperitif to gourmet meal, to accompany a fried eel fillet, for example.
Since 1929, the Champagne House
Mailly Grand Cru gathers 75 wine growers to cultivate with passion a vineyard
of 75 hectares (480 plots). Around 500,000 bottles of a range of 9 Champagnes
are thus carefully produced each year, between the power of the Pinot Noir and
the elegance of the Chardonnay, hymn to the glory of the Grand Cru of
Mailly-Champagne mainly north facing, in the Mountain of Reims.
