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Made on exceptional land, this Clos Faubourg Notre Dame is an exclusive from the Fourny family (produced in just a few hundred bottles when vintages permit), a rare thing, of which we have managed to procure a few bottles. A treasure of the Champagne region and a collector's item!
Notes :- Gault & Millau 17,5/20
- La Revue du Vin de France 16,5/ 20
Wine characteristics
- Vintage : Clos Faubourg Notre Dame
- Year : 2006
- Appellation : Vertus 1er Cru
- Colour : White
- Grape types : 100 % Chardonnay
- Soil : Vertus, rendzina on chalk
- Harvest : manual
- Type of viticulture : sustainable crop methods
- Contenance : 75cl
Tasting - Cellaring
- Appearance : pale robe
- Nose : complex aromas, with very nice notes of honey
- Mouth : deliciously rounded, mineral, fresh, with a very long finish
- Serving temperature : 10-12°C
- Cellaring : more than 10 years
- Drink from : 2015
- Winemaking process : first press wine 7 months on the lees without addition of sulphur
- Maturation : entirely in barrels
Food-matching
- Food-matching : in any circumstances, for pleasure
Experts reviews :
Gault & Millau
Rated wine : 17,5/20La Revue du Vin de France
Rated wine : 16,5/ 20
Domain :
Veuve Fourny: Charles-Henry and Emmanuel Fourny have been running this 20-hectare vineyard, located on the best terroirs of Vertus in Cûte des Blancs, since 1993. Their passion and talent leads to precise, fruity and elegant champagnes.
Appellation :
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The most northerly wine-growing region in France. This makes it ideal for developing sparkling wines that require a grape that is not too ripe so that the freshness of the bubbles is preserved.
The climate in Champagne is affected by two influences: oceanic and continental, which explains why the vintages lack evenness and regularity, depending on whether one or the other is in the ascendancy.
Main regions: Montagne de Reims, Côte des Blancs, Vallée de la Marne and Aube, which is detached, some 75 km to the South.
Most of the wines are sparkling, although there are also some still wines, such as Coteaux Champenois and the rare Les Riceys rosés. On average, total production is 320 million bottles.
The subsoil is mainly limestone, which has allowed hundreds of kilometres of galleries to be burrowed out, which are particularly well-suited to storing wine.
1 white grape (chardonnay) and 2 black grapes (pinot noir and pinot meunier) are used in the wines, some of which are blends, others made from a single grape type, usually chardonnay.
They are given a specific vintage when the production quality justifies it, or else the wines are made from 2 or 3 different years, which in turn add their own characteristics.
Champagne is marketed jointly by the major production houses (80% of exports) and individuals producers.
Best recent vintages: 2012 and 2008.