🍇 100% Pinot Noir
Region: Cote de Bar, Champagne, France
Farming/ Vinification: Champagne Fleury is a now famous, 4th generation biodynamic wine producer. Emile Fleury established the wine estate in 1895 after the crisis of the phylloxera. In 1905 he grafted Pinot Noir on his lands, which was ambitious (if not risky) considering hybridization of resistant vines was not possible at this point. and from that point forward, each generation made their contribution? In 1929 his son Robert was one of the first wine growers of the Côte des Bars to make Champagne with his harvest. In 1970, his grandson Jean-Pierre, 23, is invited by his father to help him at the domain. Follower of alternative medicine and nature conservation, the young man, loyal to his convictions, fights as soon as he arrives in the vineyard to stop the soil spoiling. His practices go far beyond reasoned viticulture used in the region. In 1989 he decides to leave a clean land for his six children … To succeed, he converts his entire vineyard, all 37+ acres, to biodynamic farming. This was an impressive achievement in it's own right, but Jean-Pierre was a pioneer of this in the Champagne region, the very first.
Innovative, Jean-Pierre Fleury, undoubtedly the prince of biodynamics, also remains much attached to tradition. At Fleury's, the Coquard press slowly turns to get the best expression of the ripe grape. The maturation of the reserve wines is done under wood in 60-hectoliter oak tuns to enrich them with vanilla flavors. All his vintage wines do not age in the cellar with a cap but with a cork and a metal clip from the bottle fermentation as the exchanges between the cork and the wine bring a great complexity.
Madd using the Saignée method. Saignée is traditionally used in the making of still red and rose wines, it means to bleed. During the wine making process the grapes are bled and left to macerate with the grape skins for 24 hours. This lends an increased proportion of phenolics and flavor compounds and is also very rare to find Champagne made using this method. This wine is one of our favorites in the shop and will surprise anyone with its complexity and flavor.
Notes: A bouquet of fleshy red fruit, redcurrant, cherries with delicate notes of wild strawberries, raspberries on the palate with vinosity, fruity on a beautiful freshness, structured rosé. The Fleury Estate is a vanguard of biodynamic winemaking in Champagne. This wine is for the wine obsessed who want a new adventure.