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93 pts Vinous (Galloni)
Drinking Window 2024 - 2032
The NV Extra Brut Les 7 (2021 base), a co-fermented blend of the seven varieties permitted in Champagne, is superb. Aromatically intense and light on its feet, Les 7 has so much to offer. Lemon confit, marzipan, white flowers and tangerine oil grace the palate. This release is based on 2021, with 50% reserve wines from a solera dating back to 2005. The blend of varieties and vintages makes for a compelling Champagne. This is elevated juice. Dosage is 2.5 grams per liter. Disgorged: November 2023. - By Antonio Galloni on March 2024

We tasted this last week and it was excellent, one of the best wines in the Laherte ice tub that day!  The Bouzy Grand Cru was up there as well but that won't be available until late November (stay tuned for that one).  Using heritage Champagne grapes rarely seen, but allowed, is a new and growing category of "cool kid" champagne.  Not many do it, and not many are worth looking at but this one from Laherte is one of the best available (like Calsac's exceptional Revenants). 

• Grapes: Planted by Thierry Laherte in 2003 in Chavot:

• 10% Fromenteau
•  8% Arbanne
• 14% Pinot Noir
• 18% Chardonnay
• 17 % Pinot Blanc
• 18% Pinot Meunier
• 15 % Petit Meslier
• Dosage 2.5 g/l
• 50% reserve wines from a solera dating back to 2005
• Chalky-clay soils with the presence of pebbles.
• Picked up by hand at full maturity, traditional pressing of the grapes (coquard).
• Alcoholic fermentation in used barrels with some batonnage
• Malolactic fermentation
• Aged on the fine lees for 6 months before bottling
• Disgorgment by hand