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Jacques Lassaigne Champagne BdB Extra Brut Les Vignes de Montgueux NV (1.5L)

Name: Jacques Lassaigne Champagne BdB Extra Brut Les Vignes de Montgueux NV (1.5L)
Brand: Farm Wine Imports [FWI]
SKU: SF-FWI-022924-14
Price: 136.99 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

$136⁹⁹

Montgueux, Cǒte des Bar. Chardonnay from 9 different sites. malolactic fermentation & no sulfites are added to the blend. The wine is aged in new & old barrels for 12 to 24 months and held in bottle for 1 to 5 years until it is disgorged, corked & released Initial tank or barrel fermentations of all his wines with only indigenous yeast. Sulfur minimally at pressing to prevent oxidation. Disgorges all the bottles by hand.

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Robert Parker

92 points

"The latest release of Lassaigne's NV Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs Les Vignes de Montgueux is a blend of the 2016, 2015 and 2014 vintages, and is disgorged à la volée without dosage. Offering up a lively bouquet of green apples, freshly baked bread, white peach and pastry cream, it's medium to full-bodied, taut and racy, with a lively spine of acidity, lovely purity and a long, searingly chalky finish. Lassaigne characterizes this as his "apéro" cuvée—modestly, as this makes for a decidedly serious apéritif. One of Champagne's most exciting producers is Emmanuel Lassaigne, an intelligent and thoughtful grower who works with the chalky south- and southeast-facing slope vineyards of Montgueux." —Robert Parker

Decanter

93 points

"The nose of this blanc de blancs is appealingly ripe but not overly so, with a pleasant balance of apple, lemon peel and apricot touched with a gentle note of autolysis. The texture of the mousse is creamy, and the feel is supple and silky without any heaviness. The base wines are one-third each from 2017, 2018 and 2019. Grapes are blended from sources throughout the village and aged on the lees in tank and barrel for more than a year before tirage. Delicious."

Wine Spectator

93 points

"A svelte version, offering sleek, well-knit flavors of mirabelle plum, star fruit and pickled ginger, and a delicate overtone of spring blossom and pastry dough set on the fine, lacy mousse. A spine of vibrant, citrusy acidity drives the mouthwatering finish."

More about Jacques Lassaigne

Montgueux, a village in the Côte de Bar, is one of Champagne's best kept secrets. It's a prized component of many top maisons' blanc de blanc blends, but only recently have we been given the opportunity to experience the wine on its own. No one has been more dedicated to the revival of this once great, then completely abandoned, and newly rediscovered region than Emmanuel Lassaigne, of Champagne Jacques Lassaigne.

Just west of Troyer's, the medieval-era capital of Champagne, Montgueux is an isolated hill. It slowly fell into obscurity until the ravages of phylloxera in the late 19th century, when it was completely abandoned. Only in the 1960s — nearly 80 years later — did growers start to replant. But it didn't take long for houses like Charles Heidsieck to take note, referring to it as the “Montrachet of Champagne.”

The village is technically part of the Côte de Bar, Champagne's most southerly subregion of undulating hills, famous for Pinot Noir, Kimmeridgian limestone and clay soils, and warmer temperatures. Montgueux is planted with 95% Chardonnay, receives the benefit of the warmer growing season, and faces south-south-east on an outcropping of chalk.

It's like combining the aspect of Aÿ and the chalk of Les-Mesnil-sur-Oger with the temperatures of the Aube. This combination of features give its wines an unmistakable signature of pineapple flavors, a powerful structure and intense chalky mineral backbone. But until Emmanuel started estate bottling in 1999, we were never able to experience it on its own.

While a few other growers have followed suit, none of them has the same mastery of vines and wines as Emmanuel. He refuses organic certification, but practices organic viticulture, and farms to encourage vines healthy enough to fight diseases themselves, claiming he hasn't harvested rotten grapes in years. Sulphur is used only at the press, fermentations are spontaneous, and disgorgement completely by hand.