Pignier Cremant du Jura Brut Nature L’autre NV 750ml

The NV Crémant du Jura Brut Blanc de Blancs l’Autre is a sparkling wine fermented with natural yeasts from the grapes and kept in contact with the lees for two years. It was bottled without any added sulfur, without dosage, and as their basic crémant, also produced with Chardonnay. It’s still very young with appley aromas and high acidity, even citric; it is quite long and straight, and a clear step up above the regular Crémant. This should evolve nicely in bottle. You don’t feel the absence of sulfur at all.

• Country: France
• Region: Jura
• 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.