Type: Champagne
Country: France
Region: Champagne
Grape Varieties: Pinot Meunier
Alcohol Level: 12%
Farming: Organic
- 100% Pinot Meuniers
- 1962yrs old vines
- 1509 bottles
- 72months sur lies
Brochet's Extra-Brut Les Hauts Meuniers is indecently good, confirming his status as one of this underrated Champagne's most able exponents. Exhibiting aromas of crisp mirabelle plum, yellow apple, almond paste, bread dough and subtle spices, it's medium to fullbodied, fleshy and vinous, with a beautifully pure core of fruit, ripe but racy acids and an attractively pillowy mousse, concluding with a long, saline finish. As readers will remember, this cuvee derives from a parcel of Meunier vines (planted in 1962) at the highest point of Brochet's holdings on the so-called Mont Benoit, a domed outcropping of chalk on the outskirts of Reims. WA 96
Tasting Note
As its name suggests, derives from a parcel of Meunier vines (planted in 1962) at the top of his holdings on the Mont Benoit. Disgorged in December 2019 without dosage, it bursts with aromas of warm bread, peach, white flowers, lemon oil and beeswax. Medium to full-bodied, elegantly layered and intensely saline, it's a precise, fine-boned but intensely flavored wine that's beautifully pure and seamless.