Cuvée des Caudalies Grand Cru - Champagne De Sousa

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95/100 James Suckling & 94+/100 Parker

When should you drink this wine? Now to 2040. Great ageing potential.

Tasted by Stephan Reinhardt: ‘The NV Cuvée des Caudalies Grand Cru Extra Brut, with its intensely lemony colour, is made from 100% old Avize chardonnay vines. The sparkling wine opens with an intense, concentrated bouquet, still yeasty and toasty, with plenty of brioche and ripe ‘reserve’ aromas. On the palate, pure and linear but also rich and intense, with a charming roundness, this is a Cuvée des Caudalies that is still terribly young but well-structured and expressive, and the finish reveals remarkable saline purity, complexity and mineral tension.  

• Bottling: 23/06/2020
• Disgorged: 10/01/2023
• Dosage: 3 gr/LS
• Solera : Réserve perpétuelle 1995 à 2018

TECHNICAL DATA

• Grape variety : 100% Chardonnay
• Terroir : Côte des blancs
• Soil type : 100% Chalk
• Average age of the vines : more than 60 years
• Alcohol level : 12.5% Vol
• Method : Organic and biodynamic
• Recommended ageing period: 8-20 years
• Serving temperature: 10-12°c
• Food pairing : Seafood, cheese, fish
• Manual harvest : 100% of the grapes
• Aging : 100% oak barrels of which 8% are new
• Dosage : 5 gr/L
• Reserve wine: 50% in perpetual reserve
• Filtration and fining : no

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