Champagne Egly-Ouriet Grand Cru Millésime 2007 Disg. May 2017

Egly-Ouriet's vintage-dated grower Champagne, drawn entirely from grand cru vines in the family's home village of 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 with the structure to hold in a cool cellar for some years yet. Serve at 8–10°C with oysters, roast chicken or an aged alpine cheese. This bottling was disgorged in May 2017.

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