Champagne Leclerc Briant
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Champagne Leclerc Briant,
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Leclerc Briant’s flagship wine is a true showcase of the House’s style. The blend (40% Pinot Noir, 40% Pinot Meunier and 20% Chardonnay) is sourced from organic and biodynamic vineyards across the Vallée de la Marne, Montagne de Reims and Côte des Blancs. A portion of the blend (20%) is fermented in used oak barrels, and the wine is aged on lees for at least two years, giving it a creamy complexity. The nose offers notes of candied citrus, green apple, apricot and almond, while the palate is electric in its freshness and salinity, driving on to a chalky, mineral finish.
Davy Zyw, Wine Buyer (winter 2018)
Davy Zyw, Wine Buyer (winter 2018)
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£50.50
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£303.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 4cs
£235.32
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Champagne Leclerc Briant,
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This is a rare vineyard in Champagne that has never seen any herbicides or pesticides, and has been farmed organically since it was planted in the 1960s. The nose is pure escapism, with candied fruit, croissant crumbs, wild honey and high-toned notes of white pepper, ginger and sweet vanilla. The palate is expansive and intense, offering pure minerality, textured exotic and fresh citrus fruit, hay and orange blossom. It’s mineral, charged and sapid with a long finish.
Davy Zyw, Wine Buyer (winter 2018)
Davy Zyw, Wine Buyer (winter 2018)
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£124.00
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Champagne Leclerc Briant,
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Leclerc Briant’s début Blanc de Noirs, this special single vineyard is located directly under the Abbey of Hautvilliers, the historical cradle of Champagne and the influences of Dom Pérignon himself. This organic and biodynamic vineyard produces richly flavoured Pinot Noir, made into a pure, low-dosage expression of the site’s terroir. The nose combines butter, red apples and spice, while the palate is positively charged, with layers of apple and rhubarb crumble, croissants and candy floss, wild flowers and mixed herbs. A vibrant and supple wine, flecked with minerality.
Davy Zyw, Wine Buyer (winter 2018)
Davy Zyw, Wine Buyer (winter 2018)
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£124.00
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Champagne Leclerc Briant,
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This is the first release of Leclerc Briant’s new clos (walled vineyard) in the Montagne de Reims. The name is inspired by the three church bell towers (“clochers”) visible from the vineyard. It is vinified in a mixture of oak barrels, including some second-fill barriques that were used for Haut-Brion Blanc. Pretty and tightly coiled, this offers notes of white flowers, green apple and wild honey. The palate is clean, bright and racy with orchard fruit, sweet hay and a creaminess from the oak, all while maintaining a lip-puckering tension and salinity.
Davy Zyw, Wine Buyer (winter 2018)
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£133.00
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Champagne Leclerc Briant focuses on organic and biodynamic viticulture, working in harmony with nature to produce some of the region’s most exciting wines.
Lucien Leclerc founded the estate in 1872 in the village of Cumières. In the mid-20th century, in the hands of Lucien’s great-grandson, Bertrand Leclerc, and his wife, Jacqueline Briant, the operation was moved to the beating heart of Champagne, Epernay, where it also took a new name – Leclerc Briant. It was around the same time that the hose started practising biodynamics (one of the first in the region), eventually earning certification in the 1980s.
Since 2012, Chef du Cave Hervé Justin, formally of Duval-Leroy, has refined the House’s style. Working with organic and biodynamic fruit, he also practises biodynamic principles in the winery. The House has taken on new vineyards, renovated its facilities and has a renewed, uncompromising focus on quality.
The wines are low dosage, vineyard-specific and extremely interesting. Its Abyss cuvée is aged underwater