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J. Vignier Champagne Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Extra Brut Pur Cramant 2016

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Every year Nathalie Vignier picks just one lieu-dit from her Cramant holdings, the one she feels best captures the village and the vintage, and bottles it alone as Pur Cramant. For 2016 she chose Les Fourches, a northeast-facing site in the south of Cramant near the well-known Bateau vineyard, where vines more than 55 years old grow in clayey marl over a subsoil of pure chalk. She fermented it in stainless steel and kept it on its lees until bottling the following April. It then aged more than five years in bottle before disgorgement. The Extra Brut dosage is just 4.3 g/L, so the site and all that time on the lees have nothing to hide behind. Nathalie is the tenth generation of her family to make wine in Champagne and the sixth in Cramant. Her grandfather Paul LeBrun was among the first in the Côte des Blancs to break away from the big houses and go independent after World War I. One village, one site, one year: this is grower Champagne doing exactly what it should.

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Natalie Vignier is the 10th generation of her family to make wine from grand cru parcels in Cramant, Chouilly and Oiry, the literal heart of the most famous Chardonnay terroirs — not exactly "out of the way".

She wanted to push the farming towards organics but her parents were, at first, quite resistant. So Natalie, along with her husband Hubert Soreau (of Le Clos l’Abbé) and their close friend Sebastian Nickel decided to begin implementing their progressive viticultural vision on a couple of small parcels down in the Côte de Sézanne. Here, they could do as they pleased, without the pressure and attention that comes with working historically famous grand crus.

They experimented with cover crops, gentler plowing, and holistic vine treatments. And the results were almost immediate. The vineyards are bursting with life, and the fruit they produce transforms into wines of real cut and drive. Today, Natalie uses organic techniques throughout the family’s holdings but it was in the Sézanne where she battle tested her theories.

Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Chardonnay

  • Vintage

    2016

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Sustainable

  • Style

    Elegant

  • Sweetness

    Champagne Extra Brut , Dry

  • Body

    Medium Bodied

Flatiron's Take

From the Importer

Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Raw oysters or langoustines with lemon, sole meunière, scallop crudo with sea salt, gougères, or a wedge of aged Comté.

Tasting Profile

Expect the classic Cramant Blanc de Blancs profile: lemon, green apple and white flowers over a pronounced chalky minerality, with long ageing on the lees adding brioche and toasted almond. Steel fermentation and a very low Extra Brut dosage keep it taut and precise, with a fine, creamy mousse, bright acidity and a very dry, saline finish.