Vilmart & Cie Champagne Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut Les Blanches Voies 2013

Name: Vilmart & Cie Champagne Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut Les Blanches Voies 2013
Brand: Skurnik Wines West [SWW]
SKU: SF-5-SWW--091626-1
Price: 349.99 USD
Availability: InStock

$349⁹⁹

Use code 10OFF to get 10% off 12+ bottles

A single-parcel Blanc de Blancs from sixty-year-old Chardonnay vines planted in 1960 in Les Blanches Voies, a lieu-dit in the Premier Cru of Rilly-la-Montagne — and it's the driest wine Vilmart makes, finished at just four grams per liter of dosage. The limestone soil here is what Laurent Champs points to for the wine's chalky, mineral intensity, and with almost nothing in the way of sugar to soften it, that minerality is fully exposed. What keeps it from being austere is the élevage: the 2013 was raised entirely in new 228-liter Rousseau barrels, then left seven years sur lattes and a further four years in bottle after its April 2021 disgorgement. That's an unusual combination — new oak and an extra-brut finish — and it works because Vilmart blocks malolactic across the range, so richness never comes at the expense of tension. The fifth generation at a house farming just 11 hectares in Rilly, Champs makes the kind of Champagne that people who love white Burgundy reach for. This is a grower cuvée already delivering what most Champagne needs another decade to find.

Shipping

Every step of the journey is managed to uphold the integrity of each bottle.

Nationwide Access: Flat-rate shipping available to most U.S. states with delivery in 3-5 business days.
Temperature-Monitored Shipping: We closely monitor weather conditions and make informed decisions to ensure shipments travel safely, with insulated packaging and refrigerated transport available when required.
Wine-Specific Protective Packaging: Specialized materials designed to maintain label integrity and prevent breakage during transit.
Provenance Assured: All wines are maintained in climate-controlled conditions at our shop until the moment of dispatch.

Returns & Exchanges

We stand behind every bottle we sell.

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.
For wines older than 10 years, the consumer bears the risk of a faulty cork, but we accept returns of older bottles if the wine is faulty as a result of improper storage. Please come by the store or Contact Us if there is a problem.
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.

View our complete return policy →

Have Questions?

Our team is here to help.

Hours

Monday - Friday: 11am - 8pm

Saturday: 12pm - 5pm

CLOSED SUNDAYS

Email: help@flatiron-wines.com
Phone: (415) 780-1405

Add your content here

Antonio Galloni

97 points

"The 2013 Extra-Brut Blanc de Blancs Les Blanches Voies remains one of the finest wines ever made at Vilmart. Super-classic and vertical, with striking energy, the 2013 is once again so impressive. Lemon confit, passion fruit, chalk, mint, white pepper and tangerine peel are some of the notes that build over time. The 2013 offers a captivating mix of intense, ripe fruit and bracing mineral notes, the results of a year defined by a long growing season and an October harvest. Dosage is 3 grams per liter. Disgorged: April 2021." —Antonio Galloni

Robert Parker

96 points

"With additional time following disgorgement, Vilmart’s 2013 Blanc de Blancs Les Blanches Voies, disgorged in April 2021 with a dosage of four grams per liter, continues its glacial evolution. It unwinds in the glass with an expressive bouquet of lemon oil, nashi pear and white flowers mingled with toasted bread, almonds and a hint of Tahitian vanilla. Medium- to full-bodied, ample and incisive, it is built around a crisp core of fruit and chalky structure, concluding with a long, penetrating finish. Possessing abundant energy, it appears destined to be a long-distance runner. Readers will recall from my earlier writing that this rendition was matured for 10 months in entirely new barrels from Tonnellerie Rousseau." —Kristaps Karklins

Wine Spectator

96 points

"This is like white Burgundy, with finely detailed bubbles. Opulent and creamy while expanding on the palate yet refined, refreshing and graceful throughout. Offers a long and persistent range of white peach, apple, vanilla and toasted hazelnut notes, with savory hints of quinine and salinity echoing on the finish."

More about Vilmart & Cie

Vilmart is on the Burgundian end of the Champagne spectrum. Older examples of his top wines come to taste a lot like a mature Chevalier-Montrachet with fermentation and aging in barrels. But unlike a true C-M Vilmart blocks the malos, retaining great mineral tension. Aside from their rosé, the wines are dominated by Chardonnay—and not the pencil-lead Chardonnay of the Côte des Blancs, but the more generous Chard that you get on the Montagne de Reims where the black grapes tend to be more dominant.

More important than these ""technical"" details, Vilmart is obsessed with good vineyard work, has plenty of low-yielding older vines, and happens to make really delicious wines. Taste and you will learn. And if you have already learned, you will almost certainly want to taste some more!s

Wine Details

Grape Variety

Chardonnay
Vintage

2013
Size

750ml
Farming Practice

Organic
Style

Elegant , Fruity , Minerally
Sweetness

Champagne Brut , Dry
Body

Light Bodied

Flatiron's Take

From the Importer

Skurnik Wines

Practicing organic100% ChardonnayFrom Rilly-la-Montagne 1er Cru (lieu-dit Blanches Voies, 60-year-old vines sélection massale)Chalk and limestone terroirNo maloFermented and aged in barrelAged 84 months on the leesDosage: 4g/L

Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Oysters on the half shell, sole meunière, roast chicken with a butter-and-lemon pan sauce, lobster rolls, Comté or aged Gruyère, salt-baked branzino, or shrimp tempura.

Tasting Profile

Straw yellow with light green tints and a fine, delicate bead. Aromas of lemon, orchard fruit and toasted bread, with a creamy, barrel-derived texture. Medium-bodied, bone-dry, with bright, unsoftened acidity running straight through. The finish is long and distinctly chalky.