Champagne Mouzon Leroux L'atavique Tradition 1.5L MAGNUM NV Base 18. Disg. Oct 2022

Champagne Mouzon Leroux L'Atavique Tradition, here in magnum, is the domaine's core Grand Cru cuvée, drawn from sixty micro-plots across Verzy.

L'Atavique is Sébastien Mouzon's ancestral cuvée and the wine that best sets out the house style. It is Grand Cru fruit throughout, this disgorgement running to sixty-five per cent Pinot Noir and thirty-five per cent Chardonnay. The base accounts for fifty-five per cent of the blend, with the reserve split evenly between the two preceding harvests. Fruit comes from sixty micro-plots spread across Verzy's clay, chalk and flint soils, and the wine is fermented eighty per cent in French oak and twenty per cent in stainless steel. It spent thirty-six months on lees and was disgorged with zero dosage. Peter Liem describes the Mouzon-Leroux style as one of vibrant depth and voluptuous presence, and both qualities show here in a wine of mineral concentration and long, linear drive.

The magnum format rewards patience; serve with roast poultry, charcuterie or a shellfish platter at 8°C.

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