2014 | Helene Beaugrand | Brut Blanc de Blancs Cuvee Reserve

Fresh and floral, featuring an ethereal, silky quality to the weight and texture, with a fine, focused array of pear financier, clover honey, salted almond and crushed black currant flavors.

Producer Information

The Montgueux hill is located 10km away from Troyes in the southern region of Champagne. The vineyards are renowned for the typicity of the Chardonnay grapes. Facing South East the vines are planted on Upper Cretaceous chalk and clay. Hélène maintains a grass-cover between the vines. The age of these vineyards and the wine-making processes enables the production of generous, complex and highly subtle wines. Vines were first cultivated in the 12th century and almost disappeared at the end of the 1800s thanks to phylloxera. After the First World War the Beaugrand family was the first to replant its hillsides. Montgueux acquired the Champagne appellation in 1927 and the first bottles were put on sale in 1930. The main street in Montgueux is named ‘Leon Beaugrand’ as mark of respect for the Beaugrand family who pushed for AOC status in 1927. Hélène and Arnaud Beaugrand are the grand children of an early winemaker. Hélène grew up in Troyes, and was educated in Burgundy also spending several years making wine in South Africa, Australia, Mexico, New Zealand and the United States. In 2008 she returned to the family estate to take over the wine making. The vineyards are all 45 years of age. Malolactic fermentation is allowed and herbicides are not used. Pesticides are not used except in the rarest occasions and then only environmentally friendly ones are chosen. With an annual production of 35,000 bottles – Hélène is raising the quality level, searching for terroir driven wines. She is a logical thinker. Traditionally dosages were all around the 7gm/litre mark, but she is very aware that the work in the vineyard and global warming is providing her with perfectly ripe, rot free grapes to work with. So some of the cuvées will be delicious as Brut Nature. It is interesting that Emmanuel Lassaigne in the same village is also moving to disgorging all of his cuvees as nature.

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