Champagne Laherte-Freres Blanc de Blanc Brut Nature NV
Champagne Laherte-Freres Blanc de Blanc Brut Nature NV
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One of our best selling blanc de blancs champagnes, this classically styled champagne is a great and value and also available in party bottle formats below! This drank great at the tasting and hit all the usually marks we expect for this wine!
92 points John Gilman (View From the Cellar)
The current release of Laherte Frères’ Blanc de Blanc Brut Nature is from the base year of 2020 and was disgorged in January of 2023. The vins clairs are all barrel-fermented for this wine and aged seven months in cask prior to bottling up for secondary fermentation, with partial malo. The bouquet is beautifully pure and precise, wafting from the glass in a mix of apple, pear, raw almond, chalky soil tones, bread dough and a topnote of white flowers. On the palate the wine is brisk, full-bodied, focused and complex, with a lovely core of fruit, fine soil signature and grip, elegant mousse and a long, young and very nicely balanced finish. To my palate, with zero dosage, this wine still needs several years in the cellar to allow the acids to back off a bit more. For Brut Nature purists, it is already very tasty. 2028-2045. (Jul/Aug 2023)
91 pts Vinous (Galloni)
The NV Brut Nature Blanc de Blancs is bright and finely sculpted right out of the gate. The blend of 50% 2021 and 50% 2020/2019 comes across as a bit austere, but that’s not surprising given the base 2021 vintage. Crushed rocks, mint, citrus, white flowers and sage all take shape. As always, the Brut Nature Blanc de Blancs is a Champagne of great character. It's a terrific value, too. Disgorged: January 2024. Drink: 2024-2030. (Dec 2024)
The Blanc de Blancs is made with their best parcels on the south slopes of Epernay. This is a perfect representation of the purity and energy coming from this area and the complexity of old vine Chardonnay.
100% Chardonnay (50% 2016, 50% 2014-15 reserve wine)
50% of reserve wines from previous vintages aged in barrels on lees
Dosage 0 g/l
Farming Practices: Biodynamic, Organic
30-40+ year old vines
Alcoholic fermentation in foudres and barrels
Malolactic fermentation partially made (20%)
Aging on lees for 6 months