Champagne Egly-Ouriet Grand Cru Millésime 2011 disg Jul 2020

This is the July 2020 disgorgement of Egly-Ouriet's vintage Champagne, a Pinot Noir-led wine grown entirely inside grand cru Ambonnay.

Egly-Ouriet is a fourth-generation grower estate on the southern flank of the Montagne de Reims, taken over by Francis Egly at the start of the 1980s and now run with his daughter Clémence. About twenty hectares are farmed across Ambonnay, Bouzy, Verzenay and Bisseuil, roughly half of it in Ambonnay itself, organically and with regular ploughing. Yields are cut hard and picking is late so the Pinot Noir arrives fully ripe; only the first pressing goes into the wine. The Millésime is led by that variety from the estate's older vines, with Chardonnay in support, fermented in barrel with indigenous yeasts and bottled without filtration. What separates it from the non-vintage bottlings is time, several more years on lees before disgorgement, and a dosage of only a gram or two. Bottles disgorged earlier read fresher and less evolved than later ones of the same cuvée.

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

*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. If you are after a specific vintage, please contact us prior to ordering.