Lanson Clos Lanson Champagne Brut Blanc de Blancs 2008 750ml

Well-spiced and fragrant, this elegant version layers a chalky underpinning with flavors of patisserie apple, ripe pineapple, mandarin orange peel, roasted nuts and toast. Bright and succulent, with its creamy mousse carrying the flavors on the fragrant finish. Disgorged December 2022. Drink now through 2034. 500 cases imported.

• 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.