Winery Charles Lafitte - Grande Cuvée Brut Champagne

Winery Charles Lafitte Grande Cuvée Brut Champagne

Wine of France Sparkling wine of Champagne of France
3.7
Note - 1 Note - 1 Note - 1 Note - 0.5 Note - 0
(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters generally liked this wine.
The Grande Cuvée Brut Champagne of Winery Charles Lafitte is a sparkling wine from the region of Champagne.
This wine is a blend of 2 varietals which are the Chardonnay and the Pinot noir.
In the mouth this sparkling wine is a powerful with a nice vivacity and a fine and pleasant bubble.
This wine generally goes well with pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish.

Taste structure of the Grande Cuvée Brut Champagne from the Winery Charles Lafitte

Light
Bold
Soft
Acidic
Gentle
Fizzy

In the mouth the Grande Cuvée Brut Champagne of Winery Charles Lafitte in the region of Champagne is a powerful with a nice vivacity and a fine and pleasant bubble.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

Wine with oak taste

butter, vanilla

Wine with microbio taste

cream, yeast

Wine with earth taste

honey

On the nose the Grande Cuvée Brut Champagne of Winery Charles Lafitte in the region of Champagne often reveals types of flavors of cream, non oak or citrus fruit and sometimes also flavors of spices, tree fruit or oak.

Details and technical informations about Winery Charles Lafitte's Grande Cuvée Brut Champagne.

Grape varieties
Region/Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
Allergens
Contains sulfites

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

Last vintages of this wine

Grande Cuvée Brut Champagne - 2008
In the top 100 of of Champagne wines
Average rating: 3.8 1 1 1 0.5 0

The best vintages of Grande Cuvée Brut Champagne from Winery Charles Lafitte are 2008

Informations about the Winery Charles Lafitte

The winery offers 25 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
This winery is part of the Vranken-Pommery Monopole.
It is in the top 5 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Champagne

The Winery Charles Lafitte is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 17 wines for sale in the of Champagne to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Champagne
In the top 25000 of of France wines
In the top 2500 of of Champagne wines
In the top 6000 of sparkling wines
In the top 90000 wines of the world

The wine region of Champagne

Champagne is the name of the world's most famous Sparkling wine, the appellation under which it is sold and the French wine region from which it comes. Although it has been used to refer to sparkling wines around the world - a point of controversy and legal wrangling in recent decades - Champagne is a legally controlled and restricted name. See the labels of Champagne wines. The fame and success of Champagne is, of course, the product of many Complex factors.

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The word of the wine: Pedicel

Small stalk.

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