Champagne Laherte Frères Grandes Crayères 2014 Disg. Feb 2018

Les Grandes Crayères is a single-site blanc de blancs from two west-facing parcels of Chardonnay at Chavot, where barely twenty centimetres of topsoil lies over deep chalk.

Laherte Frères has been at Chavot-Courcourt, south of Épernay, since 1889, and Aurélien Laherte, the seventh generation, has run it since 2005. The house farms around ten hectares split into some seventy-five parcels across ten villages, using biodynamic preparations, plant infusions and cover crops, and bottles a set of single-parcel wines to show what each site does. Les Grandes Crayères takes its name from the old chalk workings of the area, and its two parcels carry vines of about forty and sixty years over Campanian limestone. The fruit is pressed gently and fermented on indigenous yeasts in neutral barrels, malolactic conversion is blocked to hold the acidity, and the wine is bottled without fining or filtration. After a long stay on lees it is disgorged with roughly four grams of dosage, the date declared on the label.

Best given a little time in the glass, and it will keep developing in bottle. Serve at around 8°C with oysters, grilled fish or a hard alpine cheese.

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