Winery ColleryExtra Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ'
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The Extra Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' of the Winery Collery is in the top 0 of wines of Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ'.
Details and technical informations about Winery Collery's Extra Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ'.
Discover the grape variety: Helios
An interspecific cross between Merzling and FR 986-60 (S.V. 12.481 x Müller-Thurgau) obtained in 1973 by Professor Zimmermann and selected by Norbert Becker at the Institute of Viticulture in Freiburg (Germany). Almost unknown in France, it can be found in Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, etc.
Informations about the Winery Collery
The Winery Collery is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 5 wines for sale in the of Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ'
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.
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.
News related to this wine
Reduced planting density initiative approved in Champagne
The proposal reduces the mandatory density of planting from 8,000 vines per hectare to approximately 6,000. This would be accomplished by allowing 2.2 metres between rows, essentially removing every other row. The stated purposes include reducing the cost of maintaining the vineyards and therefore the time necessary to maintain them. This has been put forward as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and proponents estimate that such emissions would be 20% lower under the measure, leading som ...
Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022
The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...
Billecart-Salmon’s Le Clos Saint-Hilaire: a vertical tasting
St Hilaire is the patron saint of Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, the pretty Champagne village which is famous for scoring 99 on the Echelle des Crus. (This classification of Champagne vineyards was developed in the mid-20th century as a means of setting the price of grapes grown through the villages of the Champagne wine region.) Prime territory That the village missed out on grand cru status by one point is generally agreed to be an injustice – all the more so as it is home not only to the superlative Clos de ...
The word of the wine: Second fermentation
In the making of champagne, fermentation of the base wine to which is added the liqueur de tirage and which takes place in the bottle. This second fermentation produces the carbon dioxide, and therefore the bubbles that make up the effervescence of the wine.
