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Mouzon-Leroux, Champagne Extra Brut L'Ascendant Solera [2019], NV [Pre-Arrival ETA 8/20]

Sparkling Wine from Champagne, France
by Mouzon-Leroux
$68.99 $79.99
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A solera in Champagne: roughly half this bottle is the 2019 base wine, the other half a perpetual blend that has been building since 2014, so every release carries a trace of every year before it. Sébastien Mouzon is the ninth generation of his family to farm in Verzy, a Grand Cru village on the Montagne de Reims whose silex-flecked chalk gives his wines an unusually stony spine — as he puts it, in Verzy the dominant part of the wine is the mineral part. He converted his eight and a half hectares to organic farming by 2012 and earned Demeter biodynamic certification in 2019. The blend runs about 60% Pinot Noir to 40% Chardonnay, drawn from Verzy's three distinct hillsides and raised in used oak barrels. Extra brut, with essentially nothing added at dosage to soften it.

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Antonio Galloni

90 points

"The NV Extra Brut L’Ascendant, Mouzon-Leroux's solera-style blend, is bright and focused from start to finish. Dried citrus peel, almond, spice, chamomile and dried flowers are beautifully delineated. The blend is 60% Pinot Noir and 40% Chardonnay, 50% 2017 and 50% 2016 and 2014, so more of a multi-vintage blend than a true perpetual reserve or solera. Perhaps because of the base vintage or the low dosage (1 gram per liter), this edition feels a bit narrow, especially on the mid-palate and finish." —Antonio Galloni

Robert Parker

92 points

"Disgorged in March 2021 with 1.5 grams per liter dosage, Mouzon's latest NV Extra-Brut L'ascendant Solera is based on the 2016 vintage, complemented by 50% reserve wines drawn from a solera established in 2010. Exhibiting aromas of citrus oil, crisp green orchard fruit, nashi pear, macadamia nuts and nougat, it's medium to full-bodied, seamless and fleshy, with fine depth at the core, racy acids and a long, mineral finish. This has turned out very nicely." —William Kelley

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Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Chardonnay , Pinot Noir

  • Vintage

    NV

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Biodynamic

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Light Bodied

Flatiron's Take

From the Importer

What Polaner Selections has to say about this wine:

Varietal Notes60% Pinot Noir, 40% ChardonnayBiodynamicPracticingVineyardFrom Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grown across the three seperate hillside of Verzy Grand Cru. Chalk, silex and loam and calcareous clay over chalk.Demeter Certified Biodynamic after the 2020 vintage, horse plowing, agroforestry.OrientationEast/NortheastViticultureBiodynamic after the 2020 vintage, horse plowing, agroforestryVinification50% "L'Atavique" 2019 and 50% "L'Atavique" 2014...2018; Indigenous yeast fermentation, 100% malolactic fermentation. A true solera of the cuvee l’Atavique, started in 2014. All wines for the Solera are held in used Cadus barrels until bottlingAging42 months sur lattes; Dosage 0 g/L; Disgorgement January 2024

Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Roast chicken and morels in cream, grilled langoustines, veal blanquette, or a board of aged Comté and Beaufort.

Tasting Profile

Baked apple, toasted hazelnut and dried citrus peel over a flinty, chalky core. Bone-dry and full-flavored, with fine persistent bubbles, firm acidity and a long, savory, stony finish.

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