The wine region of Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' is located in the region of Champagne Grand Cru of Champagne of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Jacques Selosse or the Domaine Henri Giraud produce mainly wines sparkling and natural sweet. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' are Pinot noir, Chardonnay and Pinot blanc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' often reveals types of flavors of cream, roasted almonds or chestnut and sometimes also flavors of toasted nuts, biscuits or nectarine.
In the mouth of Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' is a powerful with a nice vivacity and a fine and pleasant bubble. We currently count 23 estates and châteaux in the of Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ', producing 64 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish.
For Dom Pérignon, 2008 marked a significant turning point for its Champagnes. It was the year when the two-part renovation of the red wine winery was completed as well as the culmination of learning from a period of experimentation with different tools and techniques from 2000 to 2005. Scroll down to see the tasting note and score for Dom Pérignon Rosé 2008 ‘It’s not even an evolution, but a revolution between 2000 and today,’ said Dom Pérignon chef de cave Vincent Chaperon. ‘W ...
Vanilla was ranked as the most pleasant smell in a study involving 235 people and conducted by an international network of researchers, including those from the University of Oxford and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. This was closely followed by ethyl butyrate, ‘which smells like peaches’, said the researchers, who published their findings in the Current Biology journal. Vanilla notes can be found in several wine styles, such as some iterations of Chardonnay or Rioja, largely resulting from ...
Launched at London fine wine club 67 Pall Mall on 28 March, the Regenerative Viticulture Foundation (RVF) is the brainchild of Stephen Cronk, owner of Maison Mirabeau in Provence. Cronk, who has seen extreme weather events ranging from exceptional frosts to the worst forest fires in living memory in the three years he has owned Mirabeau, feels that one of the most important ways we can fight climate change is through ‘unlearning’ current approaches to land stewardship. ‘This is a critical moment ...
