Larmandier Bernier Les Chemins d'Avize 2016

• Over 65-year-old Chardonnay vines vinified like a Domaine Leflaive Burgundy.
• One of the five best Barrique Blanc de Blancs.

This wine is in transit to our cellars, therefore delivery takes a little longer. Pierre Larmandier's best plots in Avize are called Chemin de Flavigny and Chemin de Plivot. They were planted in the late 1950s, produce very small yields and are extremely deep-rooted. The first vintage in which this champagne was bottled separately was 2009. The barren belemnite limestone gives the wines a firm structure and mineral intensity. Chemins d'Avize has a playful elegance, spiced here with a refined oak flavour. The mineral, firm Avize style takes on a richness here that is reminiscent of Selosse.

The base wines are fermented with natural yeasts and mature until summer after the harvest in barrels and casks made of Austrian oak from the Stockinger company. The wines are neither filtered nor fined. The yeast storage period is at least six years, in this case seven. After disgorging, the bottles are stored for another year before being released onto the market.

Chemins d'Avize is one of those exciting champagnes that Larmandier-Bernier has accustomed us to. It displays a complexity, depth, elegance, pronounced minerality and refinement that is not often found in a bottle of champagne.

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95(93) Richard Juhlin champagneclub.com
Today from two locations in Avize with 55-year-old vines in chalk-rich soil on relatively flat land and just like Vieille Vignes du Levant in Cramant oak barrel-aged and topped with only 2 grams of sugar. More elegant and more elusively interesting than Levant from Cramant. Very similar to Domaine Leflavie in Burgundy, I when noted Sophie told me that Leflavie was the estate that inspired Pierre to make the champagnes he makes today. Björnstierne added that the oak barrels have the same origin. The most elegant Bourgogne imaginable with terroir and slightly nutty and sublimely both floral and fruity elements where the butteriness is a textbook caress. Great when my fine-tuned sense of smell finds its way in the windy jungle.

750 mL

12.5

Champagne

Chardonnay

Sulphites

• Extra Brut

Frankreich

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