David Leclapart Champagne Premier Cru l’Artiste 2013 750ml

A more expressive, reductive nose with chardonnay that’s wound into grapefruit and peach territory with a flinty, gently spicy and complex edge. The palate has superb depth of flavor in a dry, succulent style. Long, lemon and tart yellow-peach flavors. This is superb. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold.

• 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.