Jacquesson Champagne Extra Brut Rose Dizy Terres Rouges 2013 750ml

10,512 bottles and 584 magnums produced. From a late harvest, this 2013 shows real potential. With pear, white flowers, apricot, lemon, and a hint of oak, the bouquet is complex, elegant, fine and fresh. The mouthful is remarkably tense, with a profound texture and splendid balance, with lots of minerality and a seemingly weightless finish. A gastronomic Champagne. Disgorged: February 2021. Dosage: 0.75 g/L.

• 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.