Jacquesson Dizy Corne Bautray Brut, Champagne, France, 2004
Jacquesson Dizy Corne Bautray Brut, Champagne, France, 2004
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Jacquesson Dizy Corne Bautray Brut, Champagne, France, 2004

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Bottle Size: 75cl

Region: France: Champagne

Colour: White

Style: Sparkling

Grape Variety: Chardonnay

Possessed of vines in a who’s-who of disparate Champagne villages supplemented by purchased fruit from a few equally renowned communes in which they do not have holdings, Laurent and Jean-Herve Chiquet have – particularly over the past decade – led their already successful house along some unusual not to mention unusually successful paths. Virtually all of their wines are bone-dry (and labeled “Extra Brut”) yet come off as admirably balanced, following cask fermentation and aging with malo-lactic transformation, and long stays in bottle pre-disgorgement. In lieu of a conventional non-vintage blend, there is a wine sequentially numbered (allegedly to coincide with the totality of cuvees in Jacquesson history), and dominated by as well as designed to express the character of a single vintage. The estate’s upper-tier (and alas, for those of us on any kind of budget, that’s spelled with a capital “U”) now features a trio of highly limited, vineyard-designated bottlings whose recently disgorged instantiations are already about as complex as young Champagne can be. I did not visit with the Chiquet brothers this year, and shall look forward to doing so – and to reporting on a wider range of their wines – next year. Date Tasted: November 2013. 94 points. David Schildknecht. Robert Parker.


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