La Guette Millésime 2008 Blanc de Blancs Premier Cru Extra Brut | Champagne by Gimonnet-Oger | fatcork
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La Guette Millésime 2008 Blanc de Blancs Premier Cru Extra Brut

Gimonnet-Oger

$138

A tribute to Jean Luc’s patient, reserved approach to Champagne-making, his Millésime 2008 La Guette Premier Cru has just finally reached maturity. Complex, elegant and finely mineral, it offers a snapshot of 2008 in Champagne. A classic cool, rainy spring followed by summer storms and a cool, windy fall led the grapes through a slow and gentle ripening, which resulted in fine, fresh wine with structure. Jean Luc made this particular cuvée with grapes from the “La Guette,” a plot in the Premier Cru village of Cuis. 

See: Metallic gold 

Smell: Classic pear and baked apple with nutty notes and a shave of lemon zest

Taste: Shortbread, butter cookies and candied caramel with fresh acidity, minerality and white floral notes

Pair: This bottle plays well with a rustic snack of roasted vegetables, thinly sliced jamón and hard, crumbly cheeses. Or pair it with Filipino Spanish bread to complement the snack’s sweet buttery filling.

Celebrate: You slip into your new  bathing suit and saunter over to a private cabana by the pool where your amour is lounging, book in hand. You stretch out next to them, your limbs warm shiny under the bright southern sun. You reach over to steal a kiss.

Village: Cuis
Region: Côte des Blancs
Vintage: 100% 2008
Varietal: 100% chardonnay
Disgorgement: December 2023
Dosage: 4 g/l

The Gimonnet family has been working in the Côte des Blancs vineyards since 1650. Today, vigneron Jean-Luc Gimonnet manages his family’s estate in the village of Cuis. His traditional Champagne-making style allows the exceptional quality of his grapes to shine, and all of his cuvées spend years, and sometimes even decades, aging on the lees before disgorgement.

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