Champagne Egly-Ouriet Grand Cru Millésime 2006 Disg. May 2016

The 2006 vintage bottling from Egly-Ouriet, made only in years the family considers worth declaring and only from grand cru fruit at Ambonnay.

Ambonnay is a grand cru village on the southern face of the Montagne de Reims, long held to be the best address in Champagne for Pinot Noir. The Egly family has made wine there since about 1930, and Francis Egly took charge in 1982, since when the estate has grown; his daughter Clémence now works alongside him. The holding covers grand cru vines at Ambonnay, Bouzy and Verzenay, roughly seventy per cent Pinot Noir to thirty per cent Chardonnay and averaging around forty years of age, together with premier cru Meunier at Vrigny. Yields are low and picking is late, at full ripeness, which is the foundation of the house style. The Millésime is seventy per cent Pinot Noir and thirty per cent Chardonnay from Ambonnay alone, whole-bunch pressed, fermented on wild yeasts partly in Burgundian barrels, bottled unfined and unfiltered, and left six to eight years on lees before disgorgement with two to five grams of dosage.

Drinking now and it will keep in a cool cellar. Serve at 8–10°C with roast chicken, veal or aged Comté. This bottling was disgorged in May 2016.

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