Champagne Laherte Frères Blanc de Blancs Brut Nature 3L DOUBLE MAGNUM NV Base 20. Disg. Mar 2021

Champagne Laherte Frères Blanc de Blancs Brut Nature is made entirely from Chardonnay on the family's chalkiest biodynamically farmed soils, and comes here in three-litre double magnum.

Laherte Frères is based at Chavot, south-west of Épernay, and the fruit for this cuvée comes from there and from Épernay itself, on soils rich in chalk and chalky marl with pockets of flint and schist. The vineyards are farmed biodynamically. Chalk drives the racy, saline line the wine is known for while the clay supplies weight and texture, and the more recent addition of Chardonnay from the Côte des Blancs premier crus of Vertus and Voipreux has lifted it further. This bottling is based on the low-yielding 2020 vintage with 40 per cent reserve wine from the two previous years. Primary fermentation took place in barrique, foudre and tronconique cask, and the wine aged just over two years in bottle before hand disgorgement in March 2021 with no dosage at all.

Drinking now and good for several years, particularly in this format. Serve at around 8°C with oysters, raw fish or grilled prawns.

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