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Eric Rodez, Champagne Grand Cru Ambonnay Chardonnay Les Genettes, 2017

Sparkling Wine from Champagne, France
$179.99
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This is a single-vineyard, single-vintage Grand Cru Chardonnay from a grower who learned to blend at Krug, and then left nearly everything out. Les Genettes is a south-east-facing plot in Ambonnay with only 45 cm of soil over the chalk, and in 2017 its vines averaged 44 years old. Eric Rodez is the eighth generation of his family to run the estate (his son Mickael is the ninth). He fermented this wine in small oak barrels, a habit he picked up at Krug, and skipped malolactic fermentation, industrial cold stabilisation and filtration. Dosage is just 2 g/l, so the sugar can't hide anything and what you taste is the plot and the year. 2017 was an early vintage, with picking on 4 September, and the wine went into bottle for its second fermentation in spring 2019. If you mostly know Rodez for his deep multi-vintage blends, this one is the opposite: one parcel, one year. The disgorgement date is printed on the back label.

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More about Eric Rodez

The eighth generation of Champagne growers in Ambonnay, Eric Rodez trained at the legendary Krug house and brought that same precision to his family's biodynamic vineyard. His champagnes are proof that grower Champagne can stand with any house wine—elegant, mineral-driven, and entirely natural in their expression of the terroir.

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Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Chardonnay

  • Vintage

    Champagne , 2017

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Biodynamic

  • Style

    Elegant

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Medium Bodied

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Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Raw oysters or langoustines with brown butter; turbot or sole in beurre blanc; roast chicken with morels and cream; a wedge of aged Comté; gougères.

Tasting Profile

Expect a taut, very dry blanc de blancs: lemon, green apple and white flowers, with the subtle nutty, toasty edge that barrel fermentation usually brings. Because malolactic fermentation is skipped and the dosage is minimal, the acidity typically stays bright and the mousse fine, while Ambonnay fruit adds some breadth before a long, chalky, saline finish.

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