L'INEFFABLE 2016 (Champagne MOUZON-LEROUX)

TERROIR

The Pinot Noir grapes that make up the L'INEFFABLE cuvée come from the same plots as the Pinot Noir which composes the L'INCANDESCENT champagne ; they are located west of Verzy, where the Champagne emblematic chalky soil disappears under a thick layer of clays and recent colluvial materials.

Heavier in nature, this soil is well suited to the Pinot Noir. The grape variety can however benefit from the chalk subsoil dating from the Campanian and formed 8 million years ago, and in particular from its richness in flint.

WINEGROWING & WINEMAKING

The estate has the Organic Agriculture certification, and it maintains its vines without synthetic products, preferring to use herbal teas and liquid manure to strengthen the plant.
After the harvest, the grapes are immediately pressed so that the skin does not have time to color the juice. The winemaker prepares an indigenous yeast sourdough starter and inoculates the vat with it in order to allow a successful and dynamic start to the alcoholic fermentation. Once complete, the malolactic fermentation kicks in.

It is the winegrower's will who wants to limit the sulphites use because inhibiting malolactic fermentation means filtering and sulphiting the must in order to eliminate all the bacteria that could trigger malolactic fermentation.
Once all the fermentations have been completed, the must is aged for 6 months on its fine and coarse lees, mainly in stainless steel vats, but 25% of the must is matured in oak barrels.

The wine is then bottled without fining or filtration, but with a dose of sugar that will trigger the second fermentation, and the wine is aged on slats for 54 months in the estate cellars.

The champagne is then disgorged, sugar is added at a dose of 1.5 g/l, and the champagne rests for another 6 extra months in the cellar before marketing.

• Vintage: 2016
• Malolactic fermentation: Yes
• Disgorgement date: Octobre 2021
• Sugar addition: 1,5 g/l