Champagne George Laval 1er Cru Brut Nature NV

Champagne George Laval 1er Cru Brut Nature NV

The Laval’s version of an entry-level village cuvée produced from fruit from across their plots in Cumiéres. Since 2013 Vincent has bottled the Cumières cuvèes from a single harvests fruit.

• 57% Chardonnay | 33% Pinot Noir | 10% Pinot Meunier
• chalk with varying degrees of topsoil | clay topsoil | Ecocert certified organic
• neutral oak | indigenous yeasts
• 10 months in barrel | 24 months on the lees in bottle
• around 375 cases
• 0g/l dosage | less than 20 mg/L SO2 | biodynamic practices

Four generations of the Laval family have been tending vines in Champagne and they have been producing estate bottled wines since the 1970’s. Georges Laval, Vincent’s father, was the first to begin bottling wines at the domaine in 1971. Vincent officially joined the family business in 1991 after finishing his studies, and as of 1996 he has been at the helm of the estate.

Georges set the standard for the quality of the wines coming from this tiny estate and Vincent really hasn’t changed much since he took the reins. The vineyards have been farmed organically since 1971, after Georges read a report from by Jacques Cousteau noting that he and his team had found residual pesticides in the ice of the Arctic, an area with essentially no crops to have been treated with said pesticides. The domaine was one of the first to make the conversion to organics, and for many years was one of only a handful of producers to farm in this manner.