Pierre Gimonnet Chouilly Spécial Club 2016

100% Chardonnay

Dosage: 4g/l 

4 years of bottle maturity 

Terroir 100% CHOUILLY Grand Cru

Only from one plot « Montaigu », planted between 1951 and 1991

Harvest 10 au 21 septembre 2015

Vinification:

Temperature controlled alcoholic fermentation

Malolactic fermentation

Elevated 6 months on lees

Cold Stabilization (-4°) and filtration on clay

Bottling avril 2016

Disgorgement 3 months before shipping

Produktion 3923 bottles

Terry Theise: Part of a three-commune series of Club bottlings, in tiny quantities, and again, this arose not from dissatisfaction with the existing Clubs (which are perfect and need not be improved—cannot be) but from sheer curiosity. What’s everyone talking about with these micro-terroir wines? There’s also a Cramant wine for which the jury’s out. But this will be interesting! Disg. 3/17 it is 100% Montaigu (planted in 1951), picked 9/21 and not chaptalized. He plans to release it at year’s end, but I might suggest waiting longer, bearing in mind I tasted from a bottle disgorged in the previous couple days.