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Champagne Vilmart & Cie is a family-run Champagne house that embodies the very essence of Champagne craftsmanship and tradition.
Founded in 1890 by Désiré Vilmart, this house is located in the village of Rilly-la-Montagne, in the heart of France's Champagne region. For over a century, the Vilmart family has been committed to producing Champagnes of exceptional quality, with an emphasis on respect for the terroir and artisanal winemaking methods.
The house has remained in the family since its foundation, and the fifth generation today carries on this legacy with unwavering passion. This family continuity is essential to pRéserver the consistency and quality of Champagnes.
The vineyard covers 11 hectares, mainly located in Montagne de Reims, a region famous for its chalky soils and optimal sun exposure. These ideal vine-growing conditions enable the house to cultivate the classic grape varieties of Champagne, including Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
The grapes come mainly from estate vineyards and are carefully selected for their exceptional quality. Each vineyard parcel is vinified separately to highlight the unique characteristics of each terroir.
The house's Champagnes are the fruit of a skilful combination of different harvest years, with a predominance of vintages, meaning that each bottle is the expression of an exceptional year. This approach highlights the richness and complexity of the Champagne terroir.
2012 ... what a complicated year!!! It began with a long, cold winter, followed by a cool spring with little sunshine. Then came hail and heavy thunderstorms until the end of July. It was the sunshine and warmth of August that saved the harvest, too small in quantity to be sure, but of exceptional Rare quality. 2012 ranks among the best vintages of all time.
This Les Blanches Voies cuvée is made from a parcel - whose name it bears - planted exclusively with 60-year-old Chardonnay (it's therefore a Blanc de blancs), in the commune of Rilly La Montagne, a village classified as Premier Cru. The grapes are harvested by hand and vinified in 228 L oak barrels, without malolactic fermentation, for a further ten months. After bottling, they are aged for 7 years on fine lees, before being disgorged and given a dosage of 4 g/L. Only 2900 bottles were produced.
La robe of this Champagne is a pretty straw yellow with pale green highlights. The nose offers a harmonious bouquet of citrus fruits, yellow lemon, lime, pink grapefruit and kumquat, coated with pineapple and green apple, and supported by warmer notes of bourbon vanilla and toasted hazelnuts due to vinification in new barrels. On the palate, vanilla and hazelnut are immediately present, closely followed by the sweetness of apricot and ripe white pear. The racy, saline finish offers an elegant chalky feel and some fresh hints of honeysuckle, like a "sensual minerality".
This Blanc de blancs Les Blanches Voies 2012 from Vilmart & Cie is perfect to accompany the demanding Osciètre caviar, but try it with pan-fried milk-fed veal sweetbreads with morels, it's a magical moment.
