Avize

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75% Pinot Noir, 20% Chardonnay, 5% MeunierDosage: 7g/litrePinot Noir & Meunier from Avenay-Val-d'Or (Premier Cru), Chardonnay from Avize & Oger (Grand Cru)Matured in stainless steelBottle ageing: At least 5 years60% reserve wines from a perpetuum reserve, started in 1996No malolactic fermentationNicola FEB25: Generous, aromatic, fresh and multi-layered. Fine notes of honey, among others. Soft.Tilman JUN24: Slightly yeasty, creamy, cereal-like, but also beautifully fresh and animating. Wonderfully balanced!Nicola JUN24: Soft flavour, nice acidity on the finish, well integrated, honey, creamy.

100% ChardonnayDosage 3g/lFrom Avize (Grand Cru)Aged in stainless steel & wooden barrelsBottle ageing: 3 yearsUnfined and unfilteredNicola FEB24: Aromatic, creamy, full-bodied with a straightforward finish, has a slightly matured aspect due to the oxidative style.Moritz FEB24: More mature than the last releases: Wonderful aromas of hayflower, white almond, and fresh garden herbs. Despite the light, well-integrated oxidative notes, it comes across quite fresh and straightforward, creating a wonderful symbiosis between nose and palate.Nicola JUN22: Very nicely developed, great body, complex, cleanly polished + accessible, great drinkability. Becomes richer and more opulent when open and even more drinkable with time! With a beautiful silky honey note and a nutty, brioche-like finish.

100% Chardonnay Dosage: 0g/lWinegrower: Laurent VauversinSustainable and precise, single-varietal Chardonnay from legendary terroirs. Aged in oak and of great length.The grapes come from one of our favorite winemakers: Laurent Vauversin!! 14/15 Points by @ichtrinksektvielleicht

100% ChardonnayDosage: 1.6 g/l From Avize (Grand Cru)Single plot Le Chemin de ParadisOld vinesPure chalk soilVinification in oak barrels from 228 litres to 500 litres67 months bottle ageing on the lees under corkNot filtered, not finedTilman OCT24 (on 2018): Relatively woody immediately after opening, nice light roastiness, restrained in the fruit, somewhat citrusy. But salty, lemon, wood blends very well on the palate, acquires a dark minerality with a little air. Powerful attack, great structure!

Mapping Champagne by Charles Curtis (Master of Wine) & Steve De Long The great wine cartographer Louis Larmat produced the only detailed maps of Champagne in the 1940s.Charles Curtis (MW) and Steve De Long are now engaged in a modern update and expansion of Larmat's pioneering work to add to the collection. So that the wonderfully designed maps can also be admired in our country, Champagne Characters has imported these copies directly from the USA. The card is mounted in a high-quality plastic frame with a passe-partout. Enclosed is an accompanying Avize Grand Cru brochure, which offers a tour of the village's terroir and its unique wines, a complete list of the lieux-dits grown (or partially grown) in the commune, and a directory of its winemakers. Frame dimensions: 51.5 x 41.2 cm Plastic, white

Mapping Champagne by Charles Curtis (Master of Wine) & Steve De Long The great wine cartographer Louis Larmat produced the only detailed maps of Champagne in the 1940s. Charles Curtis (MW) and Steve De Long are now engaged in a modern update and expansion of Larmat's pioneering work to add to the collection. So that the wonderfully designed maps can also be admired in our country, Champagne Characters has imported these copies directly from the USA. The card is mounted in a high-quality wooden frame with a passe-partout. Enclosed is an accompanying Avize Grand Cru brochure, which offers a tour of the village's terroir and its unique wines, a complete list of the lieux-dits grown (or partially grown) in the commune, and a directory of its winemakers. Frame dimensions: 51.5 x 41.5 cm Wooden frame

100% Chardonnay Dosage: 2g/l LES CHEMINS D’AVIZE come to enrich the list of our single-vineyard champagnes. We began this approach in 1988 with VV de Cramant, then completed in 1995 with Terre de Vertus and in 1999 by the Rosé de Saignée. We know for many years that Avize is worth a single vineyard cuvee. In 2009, we bought a smaller press so that we can now separate the juice from our 2 Avize vineyards.   Vinification: The natural alcoholic fermentation (natural yeast) and the malolactic fermentation begin spontaneously in our casks and our wooden vats. The wines are left on their natural lees for nearly a year and undergo gentle bâtonnages, but no filtering or fining. If the year merits it, this cuvée will be bottled in July as a vintage. Then the bottles are then taken down into the coolness of our cellars, where the second fermentation and the maturation 'on laths' quietly take place. Each bottle is disgorged manually 6 months before being marketed.   Tasting notes: JamesSuckling.com, October 2017: Les Chemins d’Avize 2010 || 98 points - A single 0.7ha plot in Avize, this has very assertive citrus and dried peach edge with strong chalky minerals. Extremely vibrant. The palate has richness of fruit with white peach and apricot flavors. Sturdy structure supports ripe and concentrated fruit. Grape maturity is expressed at an elite level here – a gift of the terroir and its interpreters. The acidity is striking, driving a deep, sorbet-like finish. Drink now. WineAdvocate/Robert Parker - September 2020  || 96 points - Disgorged in October 2019, Larmandier-Bernier's 2013 Extra-Brut Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Les Chemins d'Avize is showing brilliantly, unfurling in the glass with a lovely nose of citrus oil, fresh apricot, peach and pear, complemented by hints of fresh walnuts and almond paste. Full-bodied, deep and vinous, it's layered and elegantly muscular, with a concentrated core of ripe fruit, racy acids and a long, mineral finish. Pierre Larmandier invariably excels in cool, late growing seasons, so the 2013 vintage was perfectly adapted to his talents.  The Champagne Guide - Tyson Stelzer, 2014-2015: LES CHEMINS D'AVIZE Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut 2009 : Disgorged on the spot without dosage, hence is unscored, but worthy of at least 95 points.  

100% Chardonnay Dosage: 1.5 g/l Situated at the bottom of the slope facing due south; calcareous soil of clayey, sandy, silty structure over blocks of Campagnian chalk. Planted to Chardonnay with 12,000 vines over 1.3 hectares in 1962. Chablis pruning.  

100% Chardonnay Dosage: 1.5g/l Situated at the bottom of the slope facing due south; calcareous soil of clayey, sandy, silty structure over blocks of Campagnian chalk. Planted to Chardonnay with 12,000 vines over 1.3 hectares in 1962. Chablis pruning.  

100% ChardonnayDosage 3g/lFrom Avize (Grand Cru)Aged in stainless steel & wooden barrelsBottle ageing: 3 yearsUnfined and unfilteredNicola FEB24: Aromatic, creamy, full-bodied with a straightforward finish, has a slightly matured aspect due to the oxidative style.Moritz FEB24: More mature than the last releases: Wonderful aromas of hayflower, white almond, and fresh garden herbs. Despite the light, well-integrated oxidative notes, it comes across quite fresh and straightforward, creating a wonderful symbiosis between nose and palate.Nicola JUN22: Very nicely developed, great body, complex, cleanly polished + accessible, great drinkability. Becomes richer and more opulent when open and even more drinkable with time! With a beautiful silky honey note and a nutty, brioche-like finish.

100% Chardonnay Dosage: 1.5 g/l Situated at the bottom of the slope facing due south; calcareous soil of clayey, sandy, silty structure over blocks of Campagnian chalk. Planted to Chardonnay with 12,000 vines over 1.3 hectares in 1962. Chablis pruning.