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Marie-Noelle LeDru, Champagne Grand Cru Cuvee du Goulte, 2013

Sparkling Wine from Champagne, France
by Marie-Noelle LeDru
$399.00
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The 2013 harvest in Champagne came in later than any since 1991: a cold, damp flowering cut the crop, and the grapes then hung through a long, slow autumn, which is why this is the tautest and most chalk-driven of Marie-Noëlle Ledru's back vintages. Her Goulté is 100% Pinot Noir Blanc de Noirs from the best mid-slope parcels of the two hectares she farmed by hand in the Grand Cru village of Ambonnay, without herbicides or pesticides — "goulté" being Champenois dialect for the first-run juice off the press, the finest fraction of the pressing. Everything was fermented in steel and enamel with no oak, allowed to complete malolactic fermentation rather than being blocked with sulfur, left unfiltered and un-cold-stabilized, given about five years on the lees, then hand-riddled and hand-disgorged at very low dosage. She retired after the 2016 vintage, and Goulté in any year is now extremely difficult to find. From a private cellar; drinking wonderfully and the longest-lived of this run of vintages.

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Oysters on the half shell, sushi and sashimi, fried chicken, gougeres, or a raw bar with lemon.

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Bright red apple, lemon peel, white flowers and toasted bread. Medium to full-bodied, with piercing acidity, a steely chalky backbone and a long, bone-dry finish.

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