Tasting
La Haute-Lemblée is a blanc de blancs from a tiny 0.12-hectare parcel planted with five Chardonnay clones; production is extremely limited. A single vintage, here 2018, a single parcel and no dosage.
Food and wine pairings
Andouillette de Troyes, grilled sea bass, scallop carpaccio, raw fish, sushi and sashimi, taramasalata, fish with beurre blanc, mushroom risotto, poularde with morels, poultry and white meats, foie gras.
Technical details
- Estate: Roses de Jeanne – Cédric Bouchard
- Cuvée: La Haute-Lemblée
- Country: France
- Region: Champagne
- Sub-region: Côte des Bar (Aube)
- Area: 0.12 ha
- Appellation: Champagne
- Colour: White
- Type: Sparkling
- Vintage: 2018
- Grape variety: 100% Chardonnay (five clones)
- Dosage: Brut nature (zero dosage)
- Format: 75 cl bottle
Cellaring and serving
Drink now or keep for several years. Serve at 10-12 °C, in a wine glass rather than a flute.
About the estate
A former sommelier in Paris, Cédric Bouchard took over his father's vines in the Côte des Bar in the late 1990s and founded his estate, Roses de Jeanne, in Celles-sur-Ource in 2000. His rule: one parcel, one grape variety, one vintage, no dosage. Very low yields, only first-press juice, indigenous-yeast fermentations in vat, no oak, and a long, cool second fermentation that refines the bubbles and enhances vinosity. Since 2014 all his cuvées carry the Roses de Jeanne label; his father's vines were previously sold under the Inflorescence name. Gault & Millau named him Champagne winemaker of the year in 2008.
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