2009 Agrapart Grand Cru Minéral Collection Blanc de Blancs Brut, Champagne

2009 Agrapart Grand Cru Minéral Collection Blanc de Blancs Brut, Champagne

2012 Agrapart Grand Cru Minéral Collection Blanc de Blancs Brut, Champagne

2012 Agrapart Grand Cru Minéral Collection Blanc de Blancs Brut, Champagne

2014 Agrapart Grand Cru Expérience Blanc de Blancs Brut, Champagne

A$693.00
Availability: Out of stock
SKU
B16928V14
95
“Pascal Agrapart embodies the best of the artisan tradition in Champagne, and his wines show it.” 
“I think I can say with confidence these are the very finest wines I have ever tasted from Pascal Agrapart. The flagship cuvées in the range are fabulous, but what really impressed me this year was how gorgeous the more 'modest' wines in the range are. Specifically, the 7 Crus and Terroirs this year are outrageously beautiful. As always, Agrapart's Champagnes are taut and intensely mineral in feel.” 
Antonio Galloni, vinous.com
“Agrapart’s wines are of uniformly excellent quality, with a naturally vibrant and vinous character that makes them feel grown rather than made.” 
Peter Liem, champagneguide.net
“…this is a model source of fine-drawn Champagnes … Because there are no large marketing budgets to factor in, these are also some of the best value wines in Champagne.” 
Michael Edwards, The Finest Wines of Champagne

Disgorged March 2019. The price here obviously reflects, firstly, the demand for this cuvee (it is a wine that is totally unique in the world of Champagne and there is next to none to go around); and, secondly, the rarity; and, finally, that this is a wine style that is extremely difficult to make. 
Some background: in 2002 Agrapart sought and (remarkably) received permission from the local authorities to begin experimenting with a small quantity of wine that he wanted to produce without any additions at all, including no dosage additions of liqueur de tirage or liqueur d’expédition. That is to say, no sugar was to be added at all, even for the second fermentation. Not using sugar and yeast for the liqueur de tirage is against the AOC Champagne laws, which is why Agrapart needed to request permission. Instead of sugar Agrapart uses natural must (grape juice) from his own vineyards (in fact from the same vineyards that the rest of the wine comes from) for the tirage, thus enabling him to produce a Champagne that is solely the product of Estate-grown grapes. No one knows how Agrapart managed to get this permission and he just smiles when he is pressed on this question. He is clearly a man of significant charm and persuasive powers! And he clearly commands the respect of the regional authorities. The resulting Champagne, the one that we now offer, is the result of the five years of trials. Agrapart has made several small releases of this particular cuvée as he wants to understand how the wine matures. The current release is an equal blend of components that went into the Avizoise and Minéral cuvées (Les Robards in Avize and Les Bionnes in Cramant), “dosed” with the juice of 2015 (20%) from the same vineyards. It was this juice that drove the secondary fermentation in the bottle. As explained already, no sugar or yeast additions were used for either fermentation, and the wine was not fined or filtered. As the note below suggests, this is comfortably the finest release of this wine. Regardless of the methodology, this is simply a strikingly beautiful Champagne. 

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Product/Service Sold Out Yes
En Primeur No
New Arrivals No
Wine Type Champagne/Sparkling
Wine Style Traditional
Country France
Region Cote des Blancs
Varietals Chardonnay
Vintage 2014
Bottle Size 750ml
Wine Points 95
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