Champagne Laherte Frères Les Grandes Crayères 2019 (Disg. Nov 2022) domaines-schlumberger blackberry bush cracked black peppercorns

blackberry bush cracked black peppercorns

perfumed and sensual

Shaped by low yields and high alcohol

and inky black currant fuse into an exotic amalgam of nighttime on La Rambla in Barcelona

and iodine

Champagne Laherte Frères Les Grandes Crayères 2019 (Disg. Nov 2022) domaines-schlumberger blackberry bush cracked black peppercornsDisgorged November 2022. After the Brut Nature, this stunning Champagne is Aurlien Lahertes second Blanc de Blancs bottling. Les Grandes Crayres showcases Lahertes two most chalky, mineral soils in Coteaux Sud dpernay (crayres means chalk). These parcels of 40 plus year old mass selection vines are situated on a west facing hillside composed of Campanian chalk under 20cm of topsoil. The base wine was fermented with indigenous yeasts in old barrels