Champagne Laherte Frères Les Empreintes 2014 Disg. Feb 2020

Les Empreintes is Laherte Frères' vintage cuvée, an equal blend of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from two old parcels at Chavot.

Laherte Frères is a seventh-generation family at Chavot-Courcourt in the Coteaux Sud d'Épernay, where Aurélien Laherte has led the estate since joining his father and uncle in 2002 and has built a range around single sites and old plantings. Les Empreintes, meaning imprints, is made only in years the family considers worth declaring. The Chardonnay comes from Les Chemins d'Épernay, planted in 1957, and the Pinot Noir from Les Rouge Maisons, planted in 1983, both at Chavot on flinty clay topsoil over a chalk subsoil. The two are picked and pressed separately and brought together after fermentation. The wine spends six months in neutral Burgundian barrels with regular lees stirring, malolactic fermentation is avoided, and it then rests at least three years in bottle before disgorgement at around four grams of dosage. This bottle was disgorged in February 2020.

Ready to drink and capable of further development in bottle. Serve at about 8°C with oysters, roast poultry or a hard alpine cheese.

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