Champagne Egly-Ouriet Grand Cru Millésime 2009 Disg. Oct 2018

This is the October 2018 disgorgement of Egly-Ouriet's vintage Champagne, made only in the years Francis Egly chooses to declare.

Egly-Ouriet works from Ambonnay, a grand cru on the southern flank of the Montagne de Reims long counted among the best Pinot Noir ground in Champagne. The estate farms around twenty hectares across Ambonnay, Bouzy, Verzenay and Bisseuil, about half of it in Ambonnay itself. Francis Egly, the fourth generation of the family here, took charge at the start of the 1980s and moved the domaine to bottling its own wine rather than selling to the houses; his daughter Clémence now works alongside him. Farming is organic in practice, with regular ploughing, yields cut hard and picking left late so the fruit comes in fully ripe, and only the first pressing is kept. The Millésime is drawn entirely from Ambonnay, led by old-vine Pinot Noir with Chardonnay in support, fermented in barrel with indigenous yeasts, unfiltered, and left on lees for the better part of eight years before a dosage of a gram or two.

Ready now and capable of a decade more; serve at about 8°C with roast chicken, mushroom dishes or a hard cheese.

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