Chromatique Grand Cru Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs Champagne

by Stéphane Regnault NV

$109.99 ($659.94 /case)

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Chromatique Grand Cru Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs Champagne by Stéphane Regnault NV

Chromatique Grand Cru Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs Champagne

by Stéphane Regnault NV

$109.99 ($659.94 /case)

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Producer : Stéphane Regnault

Region : Champagne (France), France (France)

Food Pairing : Light Fish, Oysters, Shellfish

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Tasting Notes

The Cuvee Chromatique bottling wonderfully captures Stephane’s unparalleled ability to produce Champagnes of refinement and mineral-inflected elegance. It possesses a laser focus with a gorgeously polished and tension-filled mineral core. It is sourced from four single vineyards in the Grand Crus of Le Mesnil and Oger. It is a thrilling example from one of the new masters of the Chardonnay grape.

The wine has a brilliant straw-yellow core moving to a platinum rim, with an assertively chalky and floral aromatic profile. Notes of white flowers, cream, honeysuckle, green apples, white mushrooms, lemon verbena, and fresh-cut Bosc pear carry over to the focused, softly contoured, deeply mineral palate. Whenever I taste a wine like this I think of the concept of kinetic energy: that the wine has this kind of spring-loaded tension to it.

Specs

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Price of Case	$659.94
Cellaring	Drink Now or Cellar
Sweetness	XD - Extra Dry See Sweetness Chart
Bottle Size	750 ml
Producer	Stéphane Regnault
Region	Champagne (France), France (France)
Alcohol	12.5% alc./vol.
Style	Sparkling
Vintage	N/V
Farming Method	Biodynamic
Food Pairing	Light Fish, Oysters, Shellfish
Descriptors	Floral, Fruity, Mineral
Wine Type	Sparkling
Wood Presence	Oaked
Body	Medium
Grapes	Chardonnay

The Producer

Stéphane Regnault

Arnaud Margaine took over this six and a half hectare estate from his father Bernard in 1989 and is the fourth generation of his family to work these vineyards in the Montagne de Reims. The estate was founded in the 1920s and was expanded by Bernard in the 1950s. In 1977 Bernard joined the Special Club and Arnaud has continued his father’s commitment to high quality champagnes and continues to improve his raw materials in the vineyard.

The majority of Margaine’s holdings are in the village of Villers-Marmery, a 95% village for Chardonnay, and the parcels here are old averaging about 32 years. Margaine also has a small parcel of Pinot Noir in the village of Verzy.

The methods at this estate are not formulaic and Arnaud continues to experiment with new ideas in both the vineyard and the cellar. He prefers to make decisions in the cellar based on what he feels the wines need, rather than what was done in the previous year. Arnaud is preventing malolactic fermentation in a higher proportion of the wines, saying that he finds that non-malo wines have more freshness of fruit. 'It’s not just the acidity” he says, “but the fruit as well. With the malo you lose a little of that fresh fruitiness.'