Champagne Larmandier-Bernier Blanc de Blancs 1er Cru Terre de Vertus 2013 [Disgorged October 2019]

Terre de Vertus is one of three single-terroir Chardonnay wines produced at this Estate and certainly the most famous. It is from the chalky 1er Cru vineyard plots of Les Barillers and Les Faucherets, situated mid-slope in Vertus. These sites make arguably the most explicitly mineral wines of the village; wines that can recall the best of Le Mesnil (to the north) in their chalky raciness and drive.

The natural alcoholic fermentation and the malolactic fermentation began spontaneously (without inoculation) … more

Country: France
Region: Champagne
Sub Region: Vertus

Champagne Larmandier-Bernier Latitude Blanc de Blanc Extra Brut NV [Base 2017, Disgorged June 2020]

This replaces the wine known as Brut Tradition, although it is now 100% Côte des Blancs Chardonnay. The fruit for this wine is predominantly grown, as it always has been, in vineyards on the southern side of Vertus. These are vineyards on roughly the same "Latitude", and this new name also hints at the breadth of texture that the wines from these vineyards tend to offer up, even when only Chardonnay is used. In the past, this wine contained up … more

Country: France
Region: Champagne
Sub Region: Vertus