Mailly Les Echansons 2012 Champagne Grand Cru

Short Description

It is a champagne made only during very great years with exceptional climatic conditions. It is a blend champagne coming exclusively from Grand Cru classified villages and 75% planted with Pinot Noir grapes and 25% with Chardonnay grapes. The cuvée is vintage.

The harvest is manual and the Cellar Master carried out the double alcoholic and malolactic fermentation.

The edition is limited and operated in special numbered bottles. The bottles are then taken down to the cellar and placed on slats, sheltered from light and noise for optimal aging.

The name of the cuvée "les échansons" is a nod to the name given to the Officer in charge of the wine service at the court of the Kings of France. He was responsible for managing the cellar, choosing the wines and tasting them to make them appreciated.

The color is bright gold with amber reflections.

The first attack on the nose reveals aromas of pears and plums with a few touches of Menton lemons and mandarins harmoniously melted in delicate notes of almonds, pastries, acacia honey and caramel.

The palate is a real kaleidoscope of flavors of small red berries such as black cherry from Itxassou from the Basque Country, wild strawberry, gariguette or marrât from Dordogne, gently underlined by buttery, spicy notes with a pleasantly mineral finish.

Food / wine pairing: an exceptional Grand Cru to pair with langoustine ravioli, lobster risotto or pan-fried foie gras (a very quick turn just golden) or scallops with truffles, not to mention a chicken de Bresse with morels or even some small game birds.

The village of Mailly, which comes from the Latin Malliusacum, was classified Grand Cru at the beginning of the 19th century. It is also a village surrounded by the famous grands crus of Ludes, Verzenay and Verzy and 14 kilometers from Reims.

After the enormous damage caused by the war of 1870 under Napoleon III, the phylloxera crisis in the years 1880-1900 and the First World War and especially to its eastern region and its region of Champagne where the French staff had based its headquarters, the crisis of 1929 arrives with its Black Thursday which will extend to all countries and therefore active or potential markets.

To face this stock market crisis first and then financial, some Mailly winegrowers will face up to it and join forces. They then founded the Société de Producteurs de Mailly Champagne and decided to make champagne wines from their own grapes from their village classified as Grand Cru.

To date, the Mailly estate has 70 hectares in the Grand Cru village of Mailly located in the center of the Montagne de Reims Natural Park.

In accordance with the legislation, Champagne Mailly Grand Cru produces its champagnes only with Pinot Noir for 75% and Chardonnay for 25%.

In the basement, the House has 7 floors of cellars and 1 kilometer of chalk pits and some of its cellars were dug in the chalk from 1929 to 1965 by the founding winegrowers who at the same time built vaulted cellars ideal for aging.

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