Champagne Laherte Frères Blanc de Blancs Brut Nature NV Base 21, Disg. Jul 2024

Champagne Laherte Frères Blanc de Blancs Brut Nature is a zero-dosage Chardonnay from the family's chalkiest parcels at Chavot and Épernay.

Chardonnay is the minority grape in the Coteaux Sud d'Épernay, so Laherte Frères have gone looking for the sites within it where chalk lies nearest the surface. The soils are chalk and chalky marl with pockets of flint and schist, farmed biodynamically. Chardonnay from the Côte des Blancs premiers crus of Vertus and Voipreux has recently been folded into the blend. This bottling rests on the low-yielding 2021 harvest with 50 per cent reserve wine from the two previous years. Primary fermentation runs across barrique, foudre and tronconique cask, after which the wine spends a little over two years on lees in bottle. Like everything at the house it is disgorged by hand, in this case in July 2024, and it receives no dosage whatsoever, which puts the emphasis squarely on the chalk.

Ready now and capable of three to five years further in bottle. Serve at 8°C with oysters, sushi or grilled whiting.

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