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"From the 2019 vintage and disgorged in September 2024 with a dosage of four grams per liter, the latest rendition of Geoffroy’s NV Rosé de Saignée Cumières Premier Cru-as always-derives exclusively from Cumières. The only stage at which this cuvée encounters oak is during its 70 to 80 hours of maceration in open vats. Thereafter, it matures in enameled vats...

"The 2021 Cumières Rouge Côteaux Champenois Madelonne is bright, punchy and intensely savory. Bright red-tinged fruit, sage, mint, cedar and dried herbs lend notable savory intensity to this Cumières Rouge. Silky and persistent, the 2021 is all class. Drink this young for its primary fruit." 91, Antonio Galloni, Vinous

Ripe and solar, showing a dense black fruit core. The palate is lifted by floral aromatics, clean and refined with sandy , open-knit tannins. Clay and limestone soil. Aged for 11 months, 33% amphorae.

"A super-elegant and very graceful champagne that you sink into like a huge, velvet sofa. The ravishing orange-blossom aromas make this really hard to resist! Very suave and silky finish. From vines planted in 1951 and 1991. Disgorged in April, 2021. Drink or hold." 95 Points, James Suckling

Beautifully pure, floral nose. On the palate a racy, energetic feel with nuances of stone fruit, acacia, brioche and underlying minerality. Lovely purity and vitality run like a vein through the wine, which has a long, crisp, slightly nutty finish. Exemplary Blanc de Blancs and great apéritif style. Deliciously precise with high toned citrus fruit providing thrilling focus and definition....

"Of all Didier Gimonnet's single-village Special Club bottlings, it is Cramant that leaps out with its explosive, toasty lemon and chalky savour, evocative of some of the great vineyards of the village even with a moderate, fresh nut and cream richness just starting to build over some of the year's compact and sweet Mirabelle fruit. With its linear, accelerating palate...

This cuvée showcases the great terroir of Cramant Grand Cru and one plot of Chouilly Grand cru called «MontAigu» (separated from Cramant by a small road) … A very complex and balanced blending between minerality, elegance and finesse.