Champagne Laherte Frères Ultradition 1.5L MAGNUM NV Base 21. Disg. Mar 2024

Champagne Laherte Frères Ultradition is a Meunier-led blend from eight parcels across the Coteaux Sud d'Épernay and the Vallée de la Marne, offered here in magnum.

The Laherte family has farmed at Chavot since 1889, in a sector where Meunier has always been the mainstay, and this cuvée is built to reflect the spread of their plantings: 60 per cent Meunier, 30 per cent Chardonnay and 10 per cent Pinot Noir. Around 40 per cent of the blend now comes from the two preceding vintages, with the current release based on 2021 and reserve wine from 2020 and 2019. The juice ferments naturally in a mixture of vessels, including two 50-hectolitre Rousseau tronconique casks, old barrels, foudre and concrete, and whatever the vessel the wines are aged on lees, with malolactic conversion running at roughly 60 to 70 per cent. Dosage was 4.5 g/L, placing it in the extra brut range.

Bright and juicy, it is ready now and will hold three or four years; serve with charcuterie, fried chicken or a mushroom tart at about 8°C.

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