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Dehours & Fils Champagne Extra Brut Reserve Perpetuelle Brisefer NV

$10499
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This is the bottle to look for: a single-vineyard Chardonnay from Brisefer, home to the domaine's oldest vines, built on a perpetual reserve rather than a single harvest. The lieu-dit sits at the bottom of the hill in Mareuil-le-Port, on the south bank of the Marne. It faces east on red clay that has lost most of its limestone, and some of its vines are massal-selection Chardonnay planted in 1947. It's also the estate's mother plot, the source of cuttings for the domaine's new Chardonnay plantings. Jérôme's grandfather, a pioneer among independent growers, saw it was great terroir and made his flagship cuvée there. Since 2013 the wine has come from a solera-style reserve that gets roughly 35% new wine each year, so each bottling layers several vintages together. It's fermented in barrel, aged in large oak casks and dosed lightly as an Extra Brut. This is grower Champagne with real continuity behind it: Jérôme was 21 when his father died suddenly in 1987, and it took him until 1996 to free the family domaine from the financial group brought in to keep it going.

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  • If the wine is less than 10 years old and it is corked, you may return it to us for a full refund or exchange within 60 days of purchase. You must show us proof of purchase. We understand that you may not live near a shop and that it is difficult to ship open bottles of wine to us, so if there's any problem feel free to Contact Us and we'll work it out.
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  • We may, at our discretion and to the extent permitted by law, accept returns of unopened wines within 30 days of purchase if they were properly stored by the purchaser, subject to a 15% re-stocking fee.

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Jerome Dehours is from an old Champagne family and he decided to go "Grower" around 1996, long before the term was known here in the U.S. It took years of gradually transforming his domaine, selling less of his grapes off every year, as he introduced radically improved techniques in the vine and in the cellar. All this is great news for us, because he now produces brilliant Pinot Meunier-based Champagnes from an obscure corner of Champagne south of the Marne known as the Vallee de Fagot, where the soil is dominated by limestone from fossilized marine animals. He is working in an increasingly natural approach; he no longer blocks malos and has moved towards using only trace amounts of sulphur.

Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Chardonnay

  • Vintage

    NV

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Traditional

  • Style

    Elegant

  • Sweetness

    Champagne Extra Brut , Dry

  • Body

    Medium Bodied

Flatiron's Take

From the Importer

Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Seared scallops with brown butter; turbot or halibut with beurre blanc; warm gougères; roast chicken with morels; aged Comté.

Tasting Profile

Expect a rich, layered blanc de blancs: ripe lemon and baked apple, with toasty, nutty notes from barrel fermentation and the deeper, savoury edge a perpetual reserve typically brings. Clay soil usually gives a broader, rounder palate than chalk-grown Chardonnay, with fine bubbles and fresh acidity, while the low Extra Brut dosage keeps the finish dry and long.

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