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Tarlant, Champagne Brut Nature Zero, NV

$73.99

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Classic Champagne blend with zero dosage, this is a staff favorite perfect for any occasion.

"Tarlant's NV Brut Nature Zero packs a serous punch. Rich, vinous and expansive on the palate, the Brut Nature is a fabulous introduction to this range. Lemon oil, chamomile, dried flowers and apricot all open over time, gaining freshness and aromatic lift. Time in the glass brings up tons of red-fruited intensity from the Pinots. This is such a gorgeous NV Champagne." -- Antonio Galloni, Vinous Media

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In Champagne’s Vallée de la Marne, Benoît and Mélanie Tarlant manage their vines and their cellar the way a mad scientist runs his laboratory. A pinch of that, a dash of this; everything is done painstakingly by hand and with keen attention to every detail.

These 12th generation vignerons buck the trends of the Marne, where Pinot Meunier dominates. Instead, the Tarlants have planted half of their 13 hectares to Pinot Noir, and just under a third to Chardonnay.

Tarlant père, Jean-Mary, made waves in Champagne in the ‘70s by producing some of the region’s first Brut Nature wines, with no added dosage; the aim here is to allow the purity of the fruit to beam through the glass, without any manipulations.

With all of the extraordinary terroir, meticulous farming and winemaking techniques practices in use at Tarlant, you’d think the wines would sell for a ton of money—but no, somehow, over 12 generations, the Tarlant name has remained under the radar.

What importer Bowler Wine has to say about this wine...

1/3 Chardonnay, 1/3 Pinot Noir, 1/3 Pinot Meunier. This cuvée makes up 70-90% of Tarlant's production and "is my daily obsession", says Benoît Tarlant. Zero reflects the Tarlant emphasis on unadorned terroir, with no selected yeasts and no dosage The compostion is generally 60% of the base vintage--in this case 2012--plus 40% reserve wine--here from 2008-2011. The organically farmed, hand-harvested fruit comes potentially from all 62 of Tarlant's parcels from across 4 villages (Oeuilly, Boursault, St-Agnan and Celles-lès-Condé), and incredibly, each is vinified separately to give maximum flexibility in dialing in the blend.

The fruit is gently pressed and the juice fermented with natural yeasts in Burgundy barrels ranging from new to 30 years old. The wine generally does not go through malolactic fermentation. Moved by gravity only, the new vintage is blended with reserve wines that have been barrel-aged for about 6 months. The bottles are aged sur lattes for at least several years before release. The 2012-base Zero was disgorged in 2019(see back

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