Champagne Suenen C + C Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru 1.5L MAGNUM NV Base 20 Disg. Jun 23

Champagne Suenen C + C Blanc de Blancs blends nine parcels across Cramant and Chouilly, the two grand crus of its name, and is offered here in magnum.

The blend is split 70 per cent Cramant and 30 per cent Chouilly, drawn from north and south-facing hillsides and including Les Robarts and Le Mont-Aigu, with the oldest vines dating to 1951. Soils here run marginally deeper than at Oiry, with silty clay over the chalk: about a metre in the eastern Cramant plots of Les Robarts, Les Basses Croix, Les Fourches du Nord and Les Vignes de Mardu, and closer to 60 centimetres in Chouilly. Suenen has been tempted to bottle the villages separately but finds Cramant's textural finesse and Chouilly's more layered character work better together. The wine aged nine months on lees in enamelled tank for half the volume and used Burgundy barrels and demi-muid for the rest, then 30 months in bottle with no fining, filtration or cold stabilisation. Based on 2020 with 45 per cent reserve wines from 2013 to 2019, disgorged June 2023 at 4 g/L.

Drinking now and good for five to eight years, longer in magnum. Serve at around 8°C with oysters, roast chicken or a soft cheese.

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