NV Paul Dethune Grand Cru Extra Brut, Champagne

Clean and fresh attack, generous creamy effervescence, crispness, lemony acidity, pomelo, fleshy fruits, chalky-clay minerality, vinosity, freshness.

70% Pinot Noir (black varietal) and 30% Chardonnay (white varietal) including 30 to 50% of reserve wine from a period of 40 different years, aged and vinified in wood, in 34 hl oak tuns , guarantee this wine a very consistent quality.

Dosage 5 gr/liter .

Hall of Honour  Tyson Stelzer's Champagne Guide 2020-2021

The Déthune family has tended to vines on the privileged slopes of Ambonnay since 1610, and produced their own wines since 1890.  Today, Pierre Déthune and wife Sophie sensitively manage seven hectares of 70% pinot noir and 30% chardonnay  entirely within the village.  Ten cuvées draw complexity and diversity from 34 different Ambonnay parcels vinified separately, some in large oak foudres and small oak ‘pièces’ from the forests of Champagne. ‘We want to show that the same grapes from the same village can produce seven different styles by varying the blends, the ageing and the use of oak,’ Sophie explains.  Their 50,000 bottles confidently express the luscious power and characterful poise of Ambonnay and quickly sell out every year.

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