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Vouette & Sorbee 'Fidele' Blanc de Noirs Champagne
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- ABOUT THE WINE: Fidèle is 100% Pinot Noir grown on Kimmeridgian limestone soils. This includes roughly 5% reserve wine from a perpetual blend started in 2001 and stored in two large old foudres. The Fonnet vineyard, located in a small, enclosed valley, forms the heart of this cuvée. Sorbée provides much of the balance, topped off by Châtel—a rocky, limestone-rich vineyard with 20-plus-year-old Pinot Noir vines. Overall, the vines average 30 years of age. After pressing in a traditional vertical Coquard press, Fidèle is vinified—without added yeast or chaptalisation—in used Burgundy barrels for 10 months (these came from Domaine Arnaud Ente in Meursault). The wine then spends 15 to 20 months on lees in bottle after secondary fermentation and is disgorged with zero dosage. Gautherot describes this as “a dangerous wine”—the bottle disappears so quickly—and this description could not be more apt. Dry, savoury and super mineral! Bibendum
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ABOUT THE PRODUCER: Bertrand Gautherot set out on the path of his project in 1993, working old family vineyards, and converting them to biodynamic cultivation in 1998. The name of the winery is composed of the names of the 2 main vineyards: Vouette on Kimmeridgian limestone (the parent rock that extends all the way to Chablis) and Sorbée on Portlandien soil (gray limestone). It farms a total of 5 hectares and produces approx. 25,000 bottles per year.
- COUNTRY: France
- REGION: Champagne
- SUB-REGION: Cotes de Bar
- VARIETAL: 100% Pinot Noir
- WINE STYLE: Sparkling Wine
- WINEMAKER: Bertrand Gautherot
- CLASSIFICATION: Minimal Intervention, Unfined & Unfiltered, Minimal Sulphites, Biodynamic Farming
- CLOSURE: Cork
- ABV%: 11.5%
- SIZE: 750ml
