NV Dehours Les Vignes de la Vallee Brut MAGNUM

🌄 Marne Valley, Champagne, France

🍇 Pinot Meunier

🌡️ 12%

Culinary Suggestions: Pasta with parmigiano regiano, foie gras, Jabugo ham or matured cheese such as Comté

Vineyard Practice: Organic

About

Dehours Champagnes are eagerly sought after by champagne enthusiasts for their renowned 'Meunier style'; bold, flavourful and demonstrating a clear terroir-orientated approach. Upon tasting,

you’ll understand how the characteristics of the Pinot Meunier grape have become inextricably linked to the identity of this iconic vineyard. The “Vignes de la Vallée” cuvée is made mostly with Pinot Meunier and blended with a high proportion of reserve wine from the perpetual reserve, started in 1998.

The wines are fully aged on lees and clarified by natural settling without filtration or fining. Matured in bottle for an extensive time of 42 to 54 months before being released. - Importer Note

Tasting Notes

Based on the 2014 vintage and disgorged in October 2020 with only 2.3 grams per liter dosage, Dehours's NV Brut Les Vignes de la Vallée is showing beautifully, wafting from the glass with aromas of crisp yellow orchard fruit, mandarin orange, nectarine, acacia honey and subtle hints of wheat toast and iodine. Medium to full-bodied, seamless and incisive, it's bright and pillowy, its elegantly fleshy core of fruit underpinned by a tangy spine of acidity and complemented by a pretty pinpoint mousse. This is a terrific bottling that's well worth seeking out.

92+ points - William Kelley, Wine Advocate February 2022

Drink: 2021 - 2030

It's showing beautifully, offering up aromas of woodsmoke, crisp yellow orchard fruit, beeswax, citrus oil and fresh pastry. Medium to full-bodied, textural and enveloping, with a pillowy mousse, racy acids and a nicely concentrated core of fruit, it's a vinous, incisive wine that's seamless and charming. Drink Now. - Importer Note