Champagne Egly-Ouriet Grand Cru NV Base 18, Disg Jul 23

Champagne Egly-Ouriet Grand Cru is made entirely from low-yielding grand cru vines, chiefly in Ambonnay, and spent 48 months on lees before disgorgement.

Egly-Ouriet is based in Ambonnay on the Montagne de Reims, and this is the house's foundation wine, drawn from grand cru sites in Ambonnay itself along with Bouzy and Verzenay. The blend is the customary 70 per cent Pinot Noir to 30 per cent Chardonnay. The domaine's long-standing habit of picking late, well after its neighbours have finished, shows in the ripeness of the base wines. Fermentation is with wild yeasts only, and the wine rests on its fine lees for close to a year before bottling, with over half fermented and aged in barrel. This bottling is 60 per cent 2018 with 20 per cent each of 2017 and 2016, bottled in 2019, held 48 months on lees and disgorged in July 2023 with a dosage of just 1 g/L.

Drinking beautifully now and will deepen over several years. Serve at 8-10°C with roast chicken, mushroom dishes or aged comté.

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