Product Information: Pale, gold color with some hints of green. Pinot Noir nose with sweet honey suckle and yellow Mirabelle plums. Lemon chalk dust drives length with white and grey pepper, some lemon rind yellow Mirabelle plums and black raspberries. Riper and rounder than ever before.
Made with 100% Pinot Meunier from 40+ year-old vines, this is a one-of-a-kind Champagne, spicy, meaty and extremely vinous.
The Pinot Meunier grape, planted southward from Champagne all the way to Orleans(Eastern Loire), tends to be a little herbaceous. The advantage that is has for growing in this cooler region is a shorter cycle of maturation due to later flowering and earlier ripening than most grapes. Therefore it tends to be good right away. With Egly’s low yields and late harvesting, there is no herbaceous-ness on this Pinot Meunier. This is what Pinot Meunier can and should taste like, but rarely does.
