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Champagne Bouché Père et Fils Blanc de Blancs

$140.00
100% Chardonnay from the Premier Cru Pierry Village, the Grand Cru Chouilly Village and Barbonne. 10% oak aging and 30% reserve wine are employed in the creation of this intense and complex cuvée. Even the liquoring wine spends 18 months in oak. Lees ageing in bottle for a full 4 years prior to disgorgement. The is lemony, textural and powerful with granny smith apple, grapefruit, minerality, chalky notes and honey also along for the ride. Bead is fine, texture is mouth filling and the finish is long and profound. An exceptional Champagne.
Bouché Père et Fils Blanc de Blancs
Wine Specs
Variety
Chardonnay
Vintage
NV
Winemaker
Nicholas Bouché
Body
Medium
Sweetness
Dry
Drinking Window
Now - 2030
Alcohol %
12
Closure
Cork
Size
750 mL
Biodynamic
No

On our Last trip to Champagne we unearthed Champagne Bouché Père et Fils. Champagne Bouché is based in Pierry, a Premier Cru Village located in the Vallée de la Marne, one of 9 villages from which Bouché source their grapes. All told 75% of the fruit used by Nicholas Bouché is of Premier or Grand Cru status, which allows them to produce wines of exquisite quality and fruit definition. These Bouché cuvées then spend between 4 and 10 years on lees, (Moet is 18-24 months, Dom Perignon generally 8 years).

Unusually Matt didn’t have a price list already in hand before meeting with winemaker Nicolas Bouché. So uninformed as to the pricing, Matt settled into tasting these exquisite wines and listening to the story of Bouché Champagne: four generations making Champagne, wines which are generally aged for 4 to 10 years on lees, produced from vines which are up to 60 years of age and are 75% Grand and Premier Cru. Matt groaned, thinking these will retail between $100 and I dunno what? a bottle… there was no way we were ready yet to import a house without at least a couple of products retailing for substantially less than $100 a bottle. The upshot is we don’t really know how they do it but these Champagnes are much more affordable than Matt anticipated and we are delighted to be their Australian Importer.

Time on lees – what does it mean and is longer better? The process of transforming Champagne from a still wine to sparkling occurs via the addition of yeast and sugar (sometimes blended with reserve wines) to the Champagne. After this is done the bottle is sealed and the yeast converts the sugar into a small amount of alcohol and the all important Carbon Dioxide which gives the Champagne its bubbles or mousse. Once all of the sugar has been consumed, the yeast dies. This dead yeast is then left in the bottle for a minimum 12 months before being removed from the bottle before sale. Over time the yeast decomposes in the bottle (autolysis) and sugars and mannoproteins are imparted into the wine which becomes more complex and interesting as a result; aromas and flavours develop such as – yeasty notes, brioche, florals, nuttiness, a creamier mouthfeel and much finer bead. The impact of autolysis is much more profound after the wine has been on lees for 18 months. The more time on lees, the greater the development of flavour and complexity.

That said, there’s no point taking average wine and leaving it on lees for a long time, that would be as pointless as polishing a… only properly intense and flavoursome still wine is worth salting away on lees… and this is what we love about Champagne Bouché; exceptional fruit given extended time on lees in bottle before release…

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