Details
BLENDING
- 25% Arbane
- 25% Petit Meslier
- 25% Blanc Vrai
- 25% Chardonnay
ANALYSIS
- Total acidity = 5.3 g/l (H2SO4)
- Low dosage = 8 g/l with a liquor matured during 25 years in oak barrels
DESCRIPTION
Probably developed from the first wine plants brought by the Romans at the beginning of our era, no other traces of Arbane are found except in Champagne and more precisely in our Côte des Bar, in the Bar-sur-Aube arrondissement. Arbane produces dry, lively wines with a very marked bouquet, made
for effervescence. Originating in Champagne and Franche-Comté, Petit Meslier, like Arbane, more or
less disappeared after the Phyl loxera. The few hundred plants which have survived produce a fruity wine with a f linty taste from a very low yield.
Blanc Vrai ( True White) is the name given in Champagne to Pinot Blanc, which for a long time was confused with Chardonnay, while it is of course a Pinot. Though it is susceptible to botrytis, climate change is favourable to it above all when it is grown using wel l ventilated trellis-work. It yields supple, light wines.
Chardonnay is a noble grape variety which produces great wines with plenty of finesse, elegance and aromatic persistence. It is said to have been brought back from Cyprus at the time of the crusades, which makes it the most recent grape variety in Champagne.
The Quattuor cuvée ( quattuor means four in Latin IV) originates from the compilation of these four grape varieties in equal parts, each of which contributes an aromatic tonality. To preserve all the fruit, we have forbidden ourselves from vinifying it in wood, simply leaving it on fine lees after the first fermentation. It is the first and at this moment in time the only White Champagne made from Four Whites.