Frederic Savart Champagne Premier Cru L’ouverture NV 750ml

Crafted entirely from Pinot Noir grown in Écueil, it includes 40% purchased fruit, which Savart’s team harvests themselves. The wine is vinified in 350-, 400-, 500- and 600-liter barrels, with 5% to 10% of the barrels being new. Wafting from the glass with aromas of pear, red apple, pastries and spices, it’s medium-bodied and fruit-forward, with succulent yet vibrant acidity and an expansive finish. Among Savart’s range, this particular wine may come across as somewhat straightforward.

• Country: France
• Region: Champagne
• Size: 750ml

Varietal

Champagne Blend

The sparkling wines of Champagne have been revered by wine drinkers for hundreds of years, and even today they maintain their reputation for excellence of flavor and character, and are consistently associated with quality, decadence, and a cause for celebration. Their unique characteristics are partly due to the careful blending of a small number of selected grape varietals, most commonly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. These grapes, blended in fairly equal quantities, give the wines of Champagne their wonderful flavors and aromas, with the Pinot Noir offering length and backbone, and the Chardonnay varietal giving its acidity and dry, biscuity nature. It isn’t unusual to sometimes see Champagne labeled as ‘blanc de blanc’, meaning it is made using only Chardonnay varietal grapes, or ‘blanc de noir’, which is made solely with Pinot Noir.