Champagne Vouette et Sorbée Sobre 2014 Disg. Oct 2023

Sobre is a late-disgorged, single-barrel blanc de blancs from Vouette et Sorbée, made with no liqueur de tirage and no added sulphur.

Vouette et Sorbée is based at Buxières-sur-Arce in the Côte des Bar, the southern arm of Champagne where Kimmeridgian marl links the region geologically to Chablis rather than to the Marne. Bertrand Gautherot first released Sobre in 2005 as an experiment in a pure, late-disgorged Chardonnay. The wine takes no yeast or sugar addition at any point, and the method used for the secondary fermentation is not disclosed. In the strongest years at the estate, Gautherot assembles a single barrel of his finest Chardonnay and leaves it to age at length on lees. This release spent more than 100 months sur lattes and was disgorged by hand in October 2023. The combination of the unorthodox method and the very long lees ageing gives a Champagne of marked tertiary, sherry-like character and considerable length.

Ready now and stable enough to hold for several more years; serve at around 8°C with freshly shucked oysters, roast chicken or aged comté.

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