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| Drinking window: Drink between 2026 and 2034 (based on 20 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.2 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 13 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by T.E.D. on 4/8/2024 & rated 92 points: Once again, a beautiful champagne from this producer. Very distinct and unique. Well structured. (212 views) | | | Tasted by T.E.D. on 3/10/2024 & rated 92 points: Full bodied with dominant apple orchard, ginger, mulled cider notes. (294 views) | | | Tasted by Vinobystino on 2/20/2024 & rated 92 points: Very bright apples, touch of brioche, white flowers, lemon, some herbal green notes, some almond notes. Very bright champagne. High acidity with a really nice long finish and very fine mousse. First time trying Chartogne-Taillet and definitely not disappointed! Curious about the other cuvées. (274 views) | | | Tasted by Collector1855 on 2/5/2024 & rated 93 points: NV, base 2018, DG 02/23. Pale lemon color. Herbal and dry, very much in the grower style, no brioche, low dosage but nit thin. Well made. (908 views) | | | Tasted by linkin22luke on 1/1/2024: Nose has toast notes that stop short of multigrain bread more like a rye toast. The fruit notes are big on green apple and the acidity has malic and not citric characteristics. Good chalky minerality and some tannic structure that is both oaky and like walnut skins.
Fine mousse, medium+ acidity, medium- body. (462 views) | | | Tasted by manonthemoon on 12/25/2023 & rated 93 points: Had with Tristan island lobster and truffles on Christmas morning
N brioche, litttle honey, citrus, herbs
P dried flowers, citrus, touch of honey, herbs, almonds
F long finish, good cut
Overall a fantastic bdb for the price.
50+5+13+8+7
4 (381 views) | | | Tasted by Vas19 on 11/8/2023: A young powerful bottle of chardonnay. Ripe apples and minerality with tiny hints of oxidation. It's so soon post disgorgement that it still feels a bit disjointed but if this all comes together it will be an excellent bottle of champagne. (528 views) | | | Tasted by aquacongas on 11/2/2023 & rated 93 points: not blind, at the winery
side by side with Chemin de Reims. I would slightly tend to this wine despite being on sandy soil. It is broader and more powerful than the other BdB but this time I prefer it. 93 (679 views) | | | Tasted by DK Amateur on 10/20/2023: Lively wine with lots of wood: brioche, yeast and good body, an excellent food wine. (378 views) | | | Tasted by RolfT on 10/1/2023 & rated 91 points: Nice and spicy, but slightly hot and bitter. A little disappointing overall. (366 views) | | | Tasted by aquacongas on 5/1/2023 & rated 92 points: not blind
Herbal, powerful, sandy soil making it a bit heavy but refreshing acidity. 92 (962 views) | | | Tasted by MC2 Wines on 4/25/2023: Bienvenue a Champagne; 4/20/2023-4/29/2023 (Les Crayeres, various restaurants, Les Avises and a many wonderful producers): It’s all brightness and freshness and that wine that just wants to be your friend almost from the very beginning of time. I’m enjoying it and even a bit more than I expect because often I like to brood and think and ‘geek’ on my wine and while I suppose you can do that here (well of course you can, more than some other places of Blanc de Blanc) the initial reaction here is somehow more primary and immediate and just ‘I like this’. Drinks well. (1409 views) |
| By Antonio Galloni
Vinous, Champagne: The 2023 Spring Preview (May 2023) (5/1/2023)
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| Chartogne-Taillet Producer Website
Region: Montagne de Reims
Cru sites in Merfy, Chenay and Saint Thierry
Total vineyard holdings: 11.68 hectares
Annual production: 6,700 cases
Vines: 50% pinot noir, 40% chardonnay, 10% pinot meunier
Chartogne-Taillet (MERFY)
The vineyards of Merfy, seven kilometers north of Reims, lie on the southern slopes of the Massif de Saint-Thierry in the Montagne de Reims. These slopes were planted shortly after the arrival of the Romans and monks of the neighboring Abbey of Saint-Thierry expanded the vineyards in the 7th century. By the 9th century, the vines surrounding the abbey represented the single largest concentration of vines in Champagne and the wines from Merfy earned a great reputation and found their way to the Royal table.
Today, Chartogne-Taillet remains the only RM producer in the village and under Alexandre Chartogne’s guidance, the wines of Chartogne-Taillet are some of the most sought-after Champagnes being produced. Alexandre worked with Anslem Selosse, who he describes as “my wine father”, returning home in 2006. The first wine that he produced was the 2006 vintage of Les Barres, a very special parcel of ungrafted Meunier, planted in 1952. The soil in this parcel is sand for almost 3 meters before the roots reach the chalk bedrock, allowing the vines “to live in two environments”.
In 2007 Alexandre assumed control of the entire estate. In the early years, Alexandre experimented with lots of different vessels for fermentation and elevage, including amphorae and concrete eggs. Watching the wines, vineyards and Alexandre himself evolve over the last 10 years has been extraordinary.
“When I think back to my ancestors, I think that they knew what they were doing. There was nothing bad in the vineyards and the wines were made in oak. This is my direction after many years of seeing other things and watching the wines develop.” Says
In the vineyards, Alexandre does not follow any certifications; his goal is “to respect the soil populations as much as I can”. His work is followed by Claude and Lydia Bourguignon, the two foremost experts on soil microbiology. “I do not use chemicals, herbicides, insecticides … and plough half of my vineyards with my horses. Most of the work is made by hand, but … no certification.” Sheep and Chickens are used for fertilization and focus is put on the health of the soil as Chartogne believes that the transmission of terroir comes only though careful work in the vineyard. Horses are kept on the property and used for ploughing and a majority of the work in the vineyard is made by hand.
After careful selection and harvest, the wine is pressed in a 4,000kg pneumatic press. Fermentation is especially important at this address: “Everything is fermented with native fermentation in my house. The second fermentation have also native but selected inside my vineyards. I have my own yeasts. But for the first (alcoholic) fermentation, it’s always 100% native from the vineyards, without pied de cuve” says Alexandre. In a region where neutral base wines and clarity was favored over the heterogeneity that comes with native yeast fermentation, this philosophy is still at odds with the majority of producers in Champagne today. Fermentation is done mostly in wood: 228 liter barrels with some 600 liter French Oak. There is still stainless steel at the estate and reserve wine is held in large underground concrete tanks, but Alexandre is building a new cellar to store more oak and moving to this medium for his primary mode of elevage and fermentation. Normally base wines are aged for 9 months before assemblage and tasting. “Malolactic is part of the wines” Alexandre says. “The wines from my village makes it (malo) all the time, so (I am) malo friendly”.
Starting with the very first year back at home, Chartogne was experimenting with special, single parcel bottlings. Today, he produces wines from 8 different parcels: Les Barres, Beaux Sens, Le Coarres, Couarres Château, Heurtebise, Orizeaux, Les Alliées and Chemin de Reims. In each parcel a different variety planted, but Chartogne is adamant about the variety not being important. “It is the soil and the place that is most important. The variety is just the transmission of the feeling of that place” says Alexandre. In addition to the very small production parcelle wines, he produces a Rosé, which he considers to be the wine that carries the biggest imprint of the winemaker, as well as a non-vintage called Saint-Anne, which expresses the different terroirs of Merfy. Ste. Anne is a village wine, and an excellent lesson in just how fine wine from “cru normal” made with expertise and care can be.
“I wasn’t surprised when Alexandre assumed the estate, and I wasn’t surprised that he was ambitious. What did surprise me, and continues to surprise me, is that he is the most passionately curious vigneron I know, not only in Champagne, but just maybe anywhere. He is pursuing something that doesn’t take the form of accolades though these will surely come—and hardly even asks for answers. It’s a quest for a kind of immersion, an unquenchable desire to experience.
I believe that Alexandre Chartogne is the most exciting young producer in Champagne. And I also believe he drank from the fountain of wisdom when he said to me, “I do not feel good when I’m sure about something.” Because that’s how you measure the hunger in a man’s soul.”
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Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
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