Champagne Dhondt Grellet - Les Nogers - Premier Cru 2014
Domaine Dhondt-Grellet is located in Flavigny, at the gates of Avize, in the heart of the Côte des Blancs in Champagne. The 6-hectare vineyard is planted with Chardonnay (in the municipalities of Cramant, Chouilly and Cuis) and Pinot Noir in Avenay-Val-d´Or in the Grande Vallées de la Marne. In 1986, Eric Dhondt and Edith Grellet decided to stop selling grapes to merchants and launched Dhondt-Grellet. Their son, Adrien, now in his twenties, has taken over the winemaking and quickly takes his family's wines to another level. He slowly widened the range of Champagnes produced by isolating their plots across the villages of Cramant and Cuis and bottling the pure expressions of Chardonnay.
Les Nogers is a vintage Blanc de Blanc Premier Cru. This is an evolution of the Vieilles Vignes Selectionnées cuvée, which Adrien made for the last time in 2011. From the 2012 vintage, Adrien began to bottle the wine under the name of the place called Les Nogers. Adrien’s Nogers plot consists of old vines over 50 years old. It is a particularly interesting place because it is on the same hill as Le Bateau (Cramant) but in the village of Cuis.
Grape variety: 100% Chardonnay