{"product_id":"pierre-gerbais-la-loge-extra-brut-nv","title":"Pierre Gerbais La Loge Extra Brut NV","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"elementToProof\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e93 points Kelley - Wine Advocate\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"elementToProof\"\u003eBursting with aromas of mint, orange zest, fresh bread, passionflower and quince, the NV Extra-Brut La Loge is medium to full-bodied, pillowy and incisive, with a fleshy and layered core of fruit, racy acids and a long, saline finish. It's produced from 80-year-old Pinot Blanc vines in a south-facing site and derives from a solera spanning the 2011-2018 vintages. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e\u003ci data-olk-copy-source=\"MailCompose\"\u003e(2023 disg)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eVarieties:\u003c\/b\u003e Pinot Blanc (100%)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDosage: \u003c\/b\u003e3g\/L\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTerroir:\u003c\/b\u003e On a plateau, south-facing, Kimmeridgian soil.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eViticulture:\u003c\/b\u003e Certified sustainable (Ampelos, 1996), selection massale\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eVinification:\u003c\/b\u003e A blend of base vintage wine and solera reserve wine going back to 2011. Hand harvested and sorted. Vinified and aged without added SO2. Primary fermentation and malolactic fermentation in tank. Secondary fermentation with cultured organic yeast strains in bottle, aged for 36 months on lattes. Disgorged 6 months before commercialization. 25-30 ppm total SO2 at bottling. Extra Brut dosage: 3 g\/l.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sc-UMyrj blEPvN\"\u003eToday, the Aube has plenty of rising stars (and likely some shooting stars too), but the softly spoken Aurélien Gerbais is one of the most promising and most confidence inspiring. This 18-hectare estate in Celles-sur-Ource was planted by Aurélien's grandfather and father, and today amounts to some 50% Pinot Noir, 25% Chardonnay and 25% Pinot Blanc, divided pretty equally between northerly and southerly expositions. Much of the Gerbais holdings, moreover, have never seen synthetic pesticides and fungicides, as it was planted after the family abandoned these products. Aurélien himself studied in Burgundy and worked with Olivier Lamy in Saint-Aubin in 2008, returning to the estate in 2011 and immediately establishing perpetual reserves with a view to reimagining the range around a series of lieu-dit bottlings. Hard work in the vineyards, which are farmed organically, is followed by picking, sorting (rare in Champagne, where separation of press fractions is often deemed an adequate response to imperfect sanitary conditions at harvest), and vinification in tank without sulfites. Today, a decade's work is finally coming to fruition in the form of complex, refined, elegantly vinous Champagnes that are emerging as some of the region's most compelling, taking this estate from the ranks of the region's solid producers into the category of the exceptional. So, readers who haven't tasted the Gerbais wines for a few years should make haste to acquaint themselves with all these developments!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aube","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41466664386694,"sku":"AD-GerbaisLOGE","price":109.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0075\/0338\/0543\/files\/gerbaislaloge_5459ec46-d799-4bc6-9bd0-0db71eb7731c.png?v=1763884026","url":"https:\/\/www.winesolutions.com\/products\/pierre-gerbais-la-loge-extra-brut-nv","provider":"Wine Solutions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}