Champagne Marguet - 'Shaman' Grand Cru Brut 2019

Champagne Marguet - 'Shaman' Grand Cru Brut 2019

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Description

Location: France, Champagne, Montagne de Reims

Winemaker: Benoît Marguet

Grapes: 77% Chardonnay, 23%Pinot Noir

Soil: chalk with varying degrees of topsoil

Winemaking: fermented and aged in neutral oak with native yeasts and full malolactic. Long lees aging.

Bottled: July 23, 2020

Disgorged: April 2022

Dosage: 0 g/l

From Peter Liem’s Champagne: “One of the most rapidly rising stars in the Montagne de Reims, Benoît Marguet focuses exclusively on organic and biodynamic viticulture, farming a total of 8 hectares in Ambonnay and 2 hectares in Bouzy. He purchases a little fruit as well, but only from vineyards that are either organic or certified to be in conversion to organics. Since 2009, Marguet has been plowing his vineyards by horse, and he now owns two horses that work his entire 10 hectares of vines. Marguet has been increasingly refining his methods in both the vineyards and the cellar, working according to natural rhythms and sensibilities, and the effects of this have been palpable in the wines. There’s a texture and dimension of flavor in Marguet’s champagnes that are unlike any others, and a vitality about the fruit that makes them feel not just organic but truly alive. His nonvintage extra brut is a cuvée of two-thirds pinot noir and one-third chardonnay called Shaman—the base year is included on the label…the Shaman Rosé follows the same system and is also dosed as an extra brut but its made from a majority of chardonnay. Marguet vinifies all his parcels separately, introducing a Burgundian-like system of Cru Selections (single-village champagnes) made in good years and Lieux-Dits (single-vineyard champagnes), made in the best years.”

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Champagne Marguet

The House of Marguet is one of Champagne's leading grower-producers. They are based in the Ambonnay region, one of the top Grand Cru sites in all of Champagne. The Marguet property was founded in 1870 by the Bonnerave brothers and it is now in the 5th generation of the family under the enthusiastic rule of Benoît Marguet-Bonnerave. What is interesting to note is that the vineyards on both the Grand Cru sites, Ambonnay and Bouzy, are farmed biodynamically and have been since 2009 - a rarity in the region.

 

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Champagne Blend

It might not be obvious looking at a Champagne or any other sparkling wine made by the Methode Traditionelle method, but Pinot Noir is one of the main grapes in these fizzy treats. Along with Chardonnay which is equally important and Pinot Meunier, to a lesser extent. Pinot Noir helps to give body and aromatics, Chardonnay gives acidity and finesse and Pinot Meunier can help to add some body or colour.

 

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Champagne

Champagne is the famous region that makes the even more famous sparkling wines: Champagne. These wines are made via the Methode Tradtionelle process where the finished wines will undergo a secondary fermentation in bottle to create bubbles.