Pierre Peters - Brut Blanc de Blancs Champagne Cuvée de Réserve NV (750ml)
Price: $78.99
| Producer | Pierre Peters |
| Country | France |
| Region | Champagne |
| Varietal | Chardonnay |
| Sku | 201953 |
| Size | 750ml |
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Wine Advocate: 91 Points
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Drink Date:
2024 - 2034
For an introduction into the range of Pierre Péters, the NV Brut Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Cuvée de Réserve is the perfect choice. It's based on the incisive 2021 vintage and completed by a 50% component of the perpetual blend, aged in a variety of vessels (stainless steel tanks, large oak casks and concrete). This is the most floral wine in the range, wafting from the glass with aromas of honeysuckle, citrus fruit, acacia and beeswax. Shaped by the high-acid vintage profile, expect a bright, lightly structured Champagne laden with racy acids and a focused finish. It was disgorged in May 2024 with a dosage of six grams per liter.
Since 2007, the genial Rodolphe Péters has presided over this 20-hectare reference point in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, where Chardonnay shines at its most pure and chalky. Camille Péters began bottling his Champagnes himself in 1929, launching the house that today bears the name of his son, Pierre. It was Camille Péters who acquired 2.5 hectares of vines in Les Chétillons in 1930. Today, Péters’s vines are cultivated mostly in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, with the remainder in Oger, Avize and Cramant. New vines are exclusively replanted using a massal selection of the estate’s best vines, including Chétillon de Haut, one of the two nursery vineyards where new budwood is sourced.
Vinification is in stainless steel (with reserve wines being stored in steel, large oak casks and concrete), with partial malolactic fermentation, yet aging on the lees contributes texture and depth, which means that, while racy, these wines are never austere. All wines undergo extensive sur lie aging prior to disgorgement (Rodolphe loves the autolytic character of Chardonnay derived from extended lees contact), and today, Péters is delaying his releases slightly, increasing to six and a half years sur lattes for his flagship Les Chétillons and Les Montjolys bottlings, followed by a year on cork.
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