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Laherte Frères Les Grandes Crayeres 2019 (Disg. Nov 2022)

$250.00

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“The 2019 Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs Les Grandes Crayères 1er Cru is gorgeous. Bright, focused and vibrant, the 2019 is sourced from two chalky plots in Chavot and sizzles with tension. All the elements are so nicely balanced. I would cellar this for at least a year or two, as it is pretty tightly wound. 93pts.” 

Antonio Galloni, Vinous

“Chardonnay. Disgorged November 2022. After the Brut Nature, this stunning Champagne is Aurélien Laherte’s second Blanc de Blancs bottling. Les Grandes Crayères showcases Laherte’s two most chalky mineral soils in Coteaux Sud d’Épernay (crayères means chalk). These parcels of 40-plus-year-old mass-selection vines are situated on a west-facing hillside composed of Campanian chalk under 20cm of topsoil.

The base wine ferments with indigenous yeasts in old barrels (aged three to 10 years) and does not go through malolactic conversion, emphasising the wine’s chiselled qualities. It then spends 30 months on lees in bottle and rests a further nine months after disgorgement before release. The dosage is less than 4 g/L, and it was disgorged by hand.

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