Wine Composition
100% 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 gives the wine a lot of balance and a great freshness, with a long and mineral finish.
Technical Analysis
Alcohol Percentage
12.0%
Cellar Techniques
A blend made from a rigorous selection of Grand Cru de Verzy and Verzenay plots and reserve wines aged in barrels. This cuvée, which constitutes the quintessence of the Terroir, has then been aged on lees for at least 3 years since its launch.
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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