Champagne Egly-Ouriet Grand Cru Millésime 2011 disg Oct 2020

The Millésime is Egly-Ouriet's vintage Champagne, grown entirely within grand cru Ambonnay and given far longer on its lees than most vintage Champagne receives.

Ambonnay sits on the southern flank of the Montagne de Reims and is one of the villages where Pinot Noir ripens most completely. Egly-Ouriet holds around ten hectares there within a total of some twenty across Ambonnay, Bouzy, Verzenay and Bisseuil. Francis Egly, the fourth generation, took charge at the start of the 1980s and turned the estate over to bottling everything under its own name rather than selling to the houses. He farms organically, ploughs, keeps yields very low and picks late so the fruit comes in properly ripe, and only the cuvée, the first pressing, is used. The Millésime is led by Pinot Noir from old vines with Chardonnay filling out the blend, fermented in barrel with indigenous yeasts, left unfiltered and held on lees for the better part of eight years. Dosage at disgorgement, here in October 2020, is a gram or two.

Drinking well now with a long life ahead; serve at about 8°C with roast poultry, lobster or a mature hard cheese.

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