Wine Composition
70% Pinot Noir 30% Chardonnay
Winemakers Comments
Beautiful, slightly amber in color, a sign of maturity and great richness in the fruit. The palate is lively and round at the same time, evoking grapefruit and melon, then softens in the mouth with notes of vanilla and toasted hazelnuts. The whole is accompanied by an elegant acidity which gThe Cuvée is composed of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, a singularity for a single-plot Champagne Cuvée. Resulting from exclusive research work on the Grand Cru terroirs of Verzy and Verzenay, this unique cuvée is one of the rare Grand Cru Champagnes from a locality. A great terroir wine par excellence. The wine, made from carefully selected grapes on the plot, has remarkable aromatic finesse and balance in the mouth, combined with a very long and particularly mineral finish, reflecting the very limestone subsoil from which it comes.ives the wine a lot of balance and a great freshness, with a long and mineral finish.
Technical Analysis
Alcohol Percentage
12.0%
Cellar Techniques
Partially aged in small oak barrels (no malolactic fermentation), the salmon colored wine opens with a deep, intense, slightly oxidative and toasty, matured and vinous bouquet of small red fruits, pralines and brioche.
Winemaker
Name - Alexandre Pennet
Winery
Penet-Chardonnet is today one of the region’s most dynamic small producers. Using only the finest Grand Cru vineyards in select sites across Champagne, winemaker Alexandre crafts gastronomic, complex Champagnes for real aficionados. Make no mistake; these are fine wines in their own right and not simply quaffable, celebratory standbys.
Penet-Chardonnet is essentially the story of two families, brought together by fate and marriage. Indeed, both families boast a long history of vine growing in Champagne, the Penets acquiring their own vines in the town of Verzy during the French Revolution of the 19th century. The Penet family started to make their own Champagnes in 1951 when they purchased Mumm’s 19th-century cellars. Pursuing separate paths for many decades, the house of Penet-Chardonnet was created in 1967, when Christian Penet married Marie-Louise Chardonnet. A great name in Champagne was born!
Christian wasted built a new winery in the 1980s, which is still in use today. Christian retired in 2009, succeeded by his son, Alexandre. He represents the fifth generation to run the house.
Today, at the heart of Penet-Chardonnet’s approach is a dedication to terroir. Alexandre believes that the job of a house is to bring each vineyard to its fullest expression, which reaches its apogee with his range of superlative single vineyard Champagnes. Moreover, Penet blocks the softening malolactic fermentation and insists on low dosage (sugar) levels, making his Champagnes the connoisseur’s choice for dinner.
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