Methode Traditionnelle Blanc de Blancs 2015 NZ

Tasting notes

A rich/full green-apple flavour profile supported by firm acidity. Complexity and creaminess from the yeast with a long, dry finish.

Style notes

• This wine is modelled on the palate richness and yeast expression typical of Veuve Clicquot to produce a rich, full-flavoured wine with the yeast notes expressing as ‘bready’/brioche – not too heavy or too toasty.
• A truly ‘hand-made’ wine – hand-picked grapes, hand-bottled, hand-riddled, hand-disgorged and hand-labelled.
• This is made in every way following true Champagne processing – no short cuts.
• 100% Chardonnay, hand-picked grapes from selected low-yielding vines.
• The grapes were gently pressed to strict Champagne Cuvee press-yield guidelines.
• Minimum 36 months on yeast in bottle (tirage) prior to disgorging.
• Riddled manually on traditional oak pupitres.
• Hand-disgorged using the traditional method of à la volée (ie without neck freezing).
• Zero dosage (no sugar addition) at disgorging.
• Estate bottled and hand-labelled.
• Very small production – 1717 bottles only, individually hand-numbered.