Champagne Alexandre Bonnet Les Contrées 7 Cépages

An incredible Champagne, not just including 7 grapes of Champagne, but also taking home the Pastries Delight Category Trophy with their Les Contrées 7 Cépages

“A lovely blend of well baked pastries, baked tarts, baked cakes and treats, with croissants and brioche, with a complex layer of syrupy apricot, and fresh yellow fruits/yellow stone fruits, with that slight zestyness that livens the palate, not forgetting the wonderful underlying display of nutty oils that accompanies everything on this marvelous aroma. The palate offers a divine expression from the aroma, delivering at the forefront a magnificent experience of nutty characters and nutty oils, including walnuts and almonds, then dipping into pastries, and well baked pastry treats, and a zesty zingy from the yellow fruits and yellow stone fruits that we discovered on the aroma.” – Glass of Bubbly

Food Pairing Suggestions: Pair with a tuna tataki, sea bass in a salt crust or a ballotine of guinea fowl.

• 7 Cépages Champagne
• Vintage 2019
• Cellaring: A fine sparkling wine even when young; aficionados will be able to cellar it for around twenty years
• Dosage: 0
• Average of 36 months on lees, disgorging without dosage for preserve the purity of the wine
• Serving Conditions: Pour at 8-10°C and decant or leave to breathe for 5 minutes in the glass
• ABV 12.5%
• Acidity: 4,49 g/L H2S04
• Sulfites: 46 mg/L
• pH: 2,88
• 4,338 bottles and 54 magnums produced
• Pastries Delight Category Trophy Winner

The Vintage Year of 2019: “It was a hot year, with several hot spells. Very ripe and healthy. 2019 retains a very fine balance. Harvesting of the 7 varietals began on September 7, in the morning to pick the grapes before the heat.” – Champagne Alexandre Bonnet

• Terroir: Limestones and marls from the Kimmeridgian Jurassic, cool and sunny semi-continental climate in the South of Champagne, average altitude 250 m.
• Cépage: Pinot Noir from a Massale Domaine selection, Chardonnay, Meunier, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, Arbane and Petit Meslier. Various sizes in Chablis, cordon de Royat and simple Guyot.

“A unique cuvée of the seven traditional Champagne grape varieties grown in the same area, Les Contrées – 7 grapes varieties is a kaleidoscope of textures and flavours.” – Champagne Alexandre Bonnet

Continue Discovering this Champagne House and get to know the President of the company in this exlucive interview on Glass of Bubbly: Interview With The President of Champagne Alexandre Bonnet – Arnaud Fabre

For further reading materiel, you can read through the III part story of Champagne Alexandre Bonnet:

1. The Story of Champagne Alexandre Bonnet – Part I – Gifts From The Earth
2. The Story of Champagne Alexandre Bonnet – Part II – Encounter With The Living
3. The Story of Champagne Alexandre Bonnet – Part III – Face To Face

 

 

Pastries Delight
A wine showing a yeasty, brioche, nutty character.