Remi Leroy Champagne Extra Brut Blanc de Noirs 2019 750ml

Leroy’s signature Pinot Noir of the eastern Bar-sur-Aubois region shines in the intense, energetic 2019 vintage, bursting as it is with raspberry, baked apricot and maple notes bolstered by a little spicy complexity from its 40% fermentation in oak barrels. There’s a real sense of presence and weight here, but accompanied by a little touch of fruit-skin bitters, the vintage’s freshening length, and what Leroy believes to be some of the minerality from the Portlandian soils of the area, it’s far from heavy. Fine, gastronomic Pinot.

• Country: France
• Region: Champagne
• Size: 750ml
• Alcohol by Vol: 13.0%

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.