Mailly Blanc de Pinot Noir Champagne Grand Cru
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100% Pinot Noir from the following parcels: Les Crayats, Les Coutures, Les Chalois...
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It is a champagne of assembly of various plots located at Mailly classified Grand Cru among the 17 villages at the top of the qualitative charter of the champagnes all above the 300 villages having right to the naming "champagne" for the wines harvested on this prestigious but closed area of production.
The harvest is manual and the berries are sorted in the grape harvesting room.
The cuvée is then bottled and placed in deep cellars called "crayères" and put on laths to perfect their ageing in contact with the cork to favour the exchange with the air
On the nose: hints of undergrowth and ferns followed by subtle notes of yellow fruits such as vine peach.
The mouth is well marked on the red berries like raspberry or strawberry, or even the black cherry of the Basque Country.
Food pairing : as an aperitif, served at 10-12°C in a tulip-shaped flute on foie gras canapés, either duck or goose. It is also perfect with scallops fried with fleur de sel from Guérande or Ile de Ré on a bed of leeks, or with turbot roasted in beurre blanc or on a Tandoori.
| Size : | 750ml |
| Alcohol Degree : | 12° |
| Appellation : | Champagne Grand Cru |
| Vintage : | Non Vintage |
| Classification : | Grand Cru |
| Quality : | Brut |
The village of Mailly, which comes from the Latin Malliusacum, was classified Grand Cru at the beginning of the 19th century. It is also a village surrounded by the famous grands crus of Ludes, Verzenay and Verzy and 14 kilometers from Reims.
After the enormous damage caused by the war of 1870 under Napoleon III, the phylloxera crisis in the years 1880-1900 and the First World War and especially to its eastern region and its region of Champagne where the French staff had based its headquarters, the crisis of 1929 arrives with its Black Thursday which will extend to all countries and therefore active or potential markets.
To face this stock market crisis first and then financial, some Mailly winegrowers will face up to it and join forces. They then founded the Société de Producteurs de Mailly Champagne and decided to make champagne wines from their own grapes from their village classified as Grand Cru.
To date, the Mailly estate has 70 hectares in the Grand Cru village of Mailly located in the center of the Montagne de Reims Natural Park.
In accordance with the legislation, Champagne Mailly Grand Cru produces its champagnes only with Pinot Noir for 75% and Chardonnay for 25%.
In the basement, the House has 7 floors of cellars and 1 kilometer of chalk pits and some of its cellars were dug in the chalk from 1929 to 1965 by the founding winegrowers who at the same time built vaulted cellars ideal for aging.
