NV Dehours 'Oeil de Perdrix' Extra Brut

🌄 Marne Valley, Champagne, France 

🍇 Pinot Meunier, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay

🌡️ 12.5%

Culinary Suggestions: Fruits salads, as an aperitif or with grilled king prawns

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. Oeil de Perdrix is the name given to very pale rosé wines. This blended rosé reveals the Pinot Meunier Character, favourite grape-variety in the Marne Valley area and iconic identity of our vineyard.

The colour is obtained via a short maceration on press for a few hours. Stainless steel for fermentation. and oak maturation. The wines are fully aged on lees and clarified by natural settling without filtration or fining. Aged in the bottle for 15 to 25 months. - Importer Note

Tasting Notes

Based on the 2018 vintage and disgorged in March 2021 without dosage, the new rendition of Dehours's NV Extra-Brut Oeil de Perdrix is only very delicately tinted (keen amateur cooks will think of the skin of a Roscoff onion). Exhibiting aromas of crisp stone fruits, white flowers, buttery pastry and subtle hints of honeycomb, it's medium to full-bodied, pillowy and seamless, with fine depth at the core, lively acids and a beautifully refined mousse.

92 points - William Kelley, Wine Advocate February 2022

Drink: 2021 - 2030

The Oeil de Perdrix (Partridge eye’s colour) is fruity, round and very delicate. The red berries on the nose are sustained by a lovely citrus backbone. The palate is silky and rich with a composed energy, fresh and clean on the finish. It can be drunk now. - Importer Note