Champagne Chartogne-Taillet
Merfy, Montagne de Reims, Champagne
“A Selosse Disciple With His Own Voice & Expression”
Maybe my favorite Champagne producer that combines all of the facets of great Champagne I desire (and so should you!):
**- Power & Precision
- Expression: Authentic to grape and terroir
- Cerebral & Hedonistic Pleasure**
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Chartogne-Taillet Les Alliees Extra Brut
$94.99 per bottle
7 x avalaible
100% PINOT MEUNIER, 100% CEREBRAL, 100% DELICIOUS
I still remember when I first tasted this wine and it literally blew my brain and blew up what Champagne made from Pinot Meunier can be. So powerful, so distinctly vinous and expressive! Fun, delicious and nerdy all in one. While you can definitely enjoy this one now, can also age these in the cellar for many years as well.
92 points Vinous - Galloni
The 2013 Les Alliees, 100% Meunier, is a powerful, yet focused Champagne built on structure and raw power. I would be tempted to cellar the 2013 for at least a few years, as it is a bit rough around the edges at this stage. There is no shortage of character or personality, though. That much is clear. Disgorged: June 2018.
Chartogne-Taillet Cuvée Chemin de Reims
$82.99 per bottle
3 x avalaible
100% CHARDONNAY - SINGLE VINEYARD
While known for their Pinot based champagnes, Chartogne-Taillet has 40% of their holdings planted to chardonnay. Chemin de Reims is exclusively chardonnay champagne from a single vineyard site, like most of their wines and what makes this house so special focusing on terroir and single-site champagnes, bucking the centuries-long blending tradition in this region. This champagne is just so damn good, powerful, yet reflecting the grape and site perfectly.
The Vineyard Site: It fascinates. Like a storyteller, it recounts how the different levels of its soil were formed and how its vines cleverly choose the notes they prefer. Planted with Chardonnay, Chemin de Reims is a parcel that brings us an expression of its calcareous sand, some layers slightly pink from the iron they contain. These vines, on land overlooking the southern parcels of Merfy, are sheltered by the first houses of the village. The climate suits them well and they bear early, always yielding the fastest growing and most imposing fruit. This parcel is like a history book about Merfy, beginning with the first planting in the ninth century: one of the first vineyards in Champagne recognised for its wine, then known as “in Remis.”
92 points Vinous - Galloni
The NV (2013) Extra Brut Cuvée Chemin de Reims, 100% Chardonnay, is deep, layered and super-expressive, with real vinous intensity that grows with time in the glass. Lemon confit, dried herbs, orange peel and mint are all nicely delineated. The 2013 is vivid and super-expressive. It is also marked by slightly volatile notes from vinification in oak. There is no shortage of personality, that much is pretty evident. Readers have to be willing to look past some small imperfections, however.
Chartogne-Taillet ‘Le Rose’
$63.99 per bottle
4 x avalaible
60% CHARDONNAY and 40% PINOT NOIR
One of my go-to rose champagnes as this is long on quality, character and pleasure, while not breaking the bank as so many rose wines can do! The house style is clearly inherent and on display here with a powerful presence in texture and character, as well as a deep terroir expression.
92 points John Gilman
The new release of Alexandre Chartogne’s Brut Rosé is a blend of sixty percent Chardonnay and forty percent Pinot Noir and is a lovely, pale salmon color. The wine is young on both the nose and palate, but shows excellent promise. The bouquet is a primary constellation of strawberries, tangerine, chalky soil tones, gentle smokiness, rye bread, orange peel, hints of the spices to come with bottle age and dried flowers in the upper register. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and deep in the mid-palate, with frothy mousse, crisp acids, excellent focus and grip, nascent complexity and a very long, soil-driven finish of impressive bounce and structural integrity. Like the current release of the Cuvée Sainte Anne, this lovely Rosé really deserves some time in the cellar to develop its secondary layers of complexity and really blossom. Not surprisingly, this is a very serious example that is long on terroir and short on pretension.
92 points Vinous - Galloni
The NV (2015) Brut Rosé has just a bit more body and mid-palate generosity than the 2014, which gives the wine slightly greater richness. Sweet red cherry, rose petal, mint and touch of oak sweetness give the 2015 striking raciness and texture. This is such a pretty and distinctive Rosé. Disgorged: February, 2019.