Champagne Reflet d'Antan - Bérêche et Fils

Champagne Reflet d'Antan - Bérêche et Fils

Maturity : 2020 - 2035

Tasting : : The latest version of the NV Brut Reflet d'Antan is completed as usual by some 30% of reserve wines from a solère of demi-muids dating from 1986. This shows superbly, offering a deep and complex bouquet of citrus oil, warm pastry, peach, apple skin, fenugreek and spice, followed by a full-bodied, fleshy and layered palate, rich and generous, its concentrated core of fruit underpinned by racy acids, ending with a long, saline finish. When I noticed that this interpretation is more refined and much less oxidizing in profile than the Reflet d'Antan of yesteryear, Raphaël Bérêche told me that he had made a very strict selection of the barrels of the solera chosen, with this objective in mind.

Surface: 0,60 ha

Age of the vines : + 30 years

Production : 3 800 bottles, 250 Magnums

Terroir : Pinot noir and Chardonnay from the Montagne de Reims (Ludes 1er Cru, Trépail and Ormes). Meunier and Chardonnay from the Marne Valley (Mareuil-le-port).

Soil : Lean, very chalky, outcropping chalk.

Blend : 30% Chardonnay, 35% Pinot noir, 35% Meunier, with each year 30% reserve wines, all matured in demi-muid. Each year we take 2/3 of the best barrels, a perpetual reserve for 3 generations.

Maturing: Slow fermentation in barrels and small vats - maturing on lees - sparkling under cork - 36 months of cellar on laths.

Dosage : 6 g/L Brut

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