Description

Champagne Drappier
Grande Sendrée Rosé

 

Grande Sendree Rosé in a nutshell… (Vintage 2018)

• • Sourced from a single location
  • Elegance
  • Pinot Noir
  • “Crayot” soil
  • Rosé made using the saignée method with addition of Chardonnay
  • Liqueur de dosage aged in wood
  • Non-filtered

Vinification of the Grand Sendree Rosé cuvée

BLEND:

• • 70% Pinot Noir. 30% Chardonnay.
  • Jurassic Kimmeridgian limestone soil from Urville.
  • Organic cultivation.
  • Saignée rosé, maceration for 3 days.
  • Cold pre-fermentation maceration of destemmed grapes.
  • Plate press with very low pressure.
  • Exclusively first pressing.
  • Vinification by gravity.
  • Natural settling.
  • Malolactic fermentation.
  • Unfiltered and non-decolored.

AGEING:

• • 90% of the wines aged in large oak vats.
  • Very low sulfite content.
  • Aged in bottle for 6 years.

DOSAGE:

• • 4g/L (liqueur aged for 15 years in wood).

 

FOOD PAIRINGS: Ideal as an aperitif. To go with a saffron cream of mussels soup, a crayfish salad or a monkfish blancmange.  Serve at: 45°F.

TASTING NOTES: Complex nose opening onto notes of strawberry, raspberry and violets with toasted nuances. Round, supple, with a rather lively spinal column tightening the entity, the palate recalls red fruits; it is fresh and complex at the same time. A rich Champagne with great persistence.

 

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