Dosage: 1.7g/L – Extra Brut

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Pinot NoirCelles-les-Cond Dhuys Surmelin Tarlant Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir 80CondCelles-ls-Cond”Mocque TonneauLutetian limestone

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100% Pinot Noir

Champagne Must from the press! This one is from the famous “Mocque Tonneau” vineyard, Pinot Noir harvested inmorning and afternoon in Celles-ls-Cond. Future La Vigne Royale Champagne is on the way…

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The Tarlant family traces their winegrowing history back to 1687, when Pierre Tarlant first cultivated grapevines in the Marne Valley. In 1928, Louis Adrien Tarlant produced the familys first estate-bottled champagne, and since then there have been four successive generations of Tarlants producing wine at their estate in the village of Oeuilly. Today the estate is in the hands of Benot Tarlant, who has been making wine here since 1999.

The diversity of soils in this area of the Marne Valley results in a complex signature of terroir that is strongly reflected in Tarlants wines. These are ample, full-flavored champagnes, influenced by their close proximity to the Marne River, as well as by Tarlants sophisticated use of oak for vinification. They are always impeccably structured thanks to the lack of malolactic, and they are dosed very low, below six grams or down to zero.

Home of Champagne finest Pinot Noir, Celles-les-Cond lies at the juntion of the Dhuys and Surmelin rivers, a favourite place for the Royal Court. On these vast and sunny slopes stands La Vigne Royale (The Royal Vine), a vineyard on which our maternal grandfather has planted Pinot Noir.

Country of Origin:
France

Terroir:
Comes from a south-east facing plot of Pinot Noir planted in 1980s in the Vineyard “Mocque Tonneau” in Celles-ls-Cond, Principality of Cond. The soil is Lutetian limestone with lignite.

Type:
Champagne

Grape Variety:
Pinot Noir

Vinification:
Harvest on the morning of September 5, 2003. Barrel fermentation with the lees regularly stirred back into the wine. Bottle on May 2004. Discorged in June 2013. (Matured for 9 years!)

Alcohol
12%

Tasting Notes
Golden colour, lively bubbles. Typical Champagne aromas like toasted bread, biscuits and minerals, together with attractive white flowers and fresh fruits such as cantaloupe, pineapple and peach. Very soft and silky texture, tropical fruit flavours like lychee and pineapple. Obvious oak from mid-palate lead to the end, bringing up the whole structure and layers, long finish.