BLANC D'ARGILE R 19 (Champagne VOUETTE & SORBÉE) - D: 22/10

TERROIR

The champagne BLANC D'ARGILE is a blanc de blancs champagne, 100% Chardonnay, made from a single year and a single terroir, located in three places called Biaune, between forest and pasture, with a cold microclimate, Vouette and Fonnet

The soil of the Biaune, Vouette and Fonnet places dates from the Kimmeridgian period (-154 à -150 million years) and is composed of three layers of marl separated by two layers of limestone, rich in marine fossils.

The sedimentation of this soil took place in a deep marine environment, when the sinking of the earth's crust caused a major marine transgression in the region.

WINEGROWING & WINEMAKING

The estate has been certified Organic Agriculture by Ecocert since 1998. The Pinot Noir vines are about 35 years old.

The grapes are harvested in several stages and only when they are fully ripe. Harvesting can sometimes last more than 3 weeks. Once picked, the grapes are taken to the winery and immediately pressed in a traditional vertical press of Coquard type which allows for gentle pressing and better extraction of the juice. Once pressed, the must is vatted to be settled and then transferred to 400 & 228 litre barrels of 4 wines and where it undergoes alcoholic and malolactic fermentations. No yeast is added, the fermentation is carried out by the indigenous yeasts and bacteria.

After a short period of maturation, the must is racked and bottled with the addition of a liqueur de tirage for the second fermentation. The wine is then placed on slats for an ageing period of 24 months.
No sugar is added after disgorging, the champagne is brut nature.

• Harvest:
  2019
• Disgorging date: 21 October, 2022
  
• Slats ageing: 31 months
  
• Sugar addition: 0 g/l