LE DESSUS DU BOIS MARIE Champagne Pas Dosé Blanc de Noirs

Crouttes-sur-Marne, where Christophe's Pinot Meunier vines have been growing since 1966 on 0.768 hectares of gently sloping hillsides with a southern exposure on visible clay that lies 80 centimetres deep on limestone. The wine is matured in wooden barrels - largely without aromas - before maturing for almost four years in the bottle. Wonderful fruit aromas emerge: mandarin and honeydew melon and Reineclaude, which combine wonderfully with brioche aromas. The wine fills the palate with pressure, giving the feeling of a wine in the mouth rather than a champagne, so fine is its mousse. Wonderful, this energy, the mineral vein and the incredibly long and wonderfully juicy finish. A wine that develops with air and really turns up the heat, a wine that you should definitely not enjoy ice cold. You will see that the wine shifts up a gear with every degree. By the way, if you like mature champagnes, put a magnum aside, because Baron's wines mature superbly!