Winery De Sousa - Cuvée des Caudalies Extra Brut Millesimé Champagne Grand Cru

Winery De Sousa Cuvée des Caudalies Extra Brut Millesimé Champagne Grand Cru

4.2
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(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters consider this wine to be one of the best in the region.
The Cuvée des Caudalies Extra Brut Millesimé Champagne Grand Cru of Winery De Sousa is a sparkling wine from the region of Champagne Grand Cru of Champagne.
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.
The Cuvée des Caudalies Extra Brut Millesimé Champagne Grand Cru of the Winery De Sousa is in the top 10 of wines of Champagne Grand Cru.

Taste structure of the Cuvée des Caudalies Extra Brut Millesimé Champagne Grand Cru from the Winery De Sousa

Light
Bold
Soft
Acidic
Gentle
Fizzy

In the mouth the Cuvée des Caudalies Extra Brut Millesimé Champagne Grand Cru of Winery De Sousa 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 earth taste

honey, smoke

Wine with oak taste

caramel, oak

Wine with microbio taste

yeast

On the nose the Cuvée des Caudalies Extra Brut Millesimé Champagne Grand Cru of Winery De Sousa in the region of Champagne often reveals types of flavors of honey, non oak or earth and sometimes also flavors of microbio, oak or tree fruit.

Details and technical informations about Winery De Sousa's Cuvée des Caudalies Extra Brut Millesimé Champagne Grand Cru.

Grape varieties
Region/Great wine 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

Cuvée des Caudalies Extra Brut Millesimé Champagne Grand Cru - 2010
In the top 10 of of Champagne Grand Cru wines
Average rating: 4.3 1 1 1 1 0
Cuvée des Caudalies Extra Brut Millesimé Champagne Grand Cru - 2008
In the top 10 of of Champagne Grand Cru wines
Average rating: 4.1 1 1 1 1 0

The best vintages of Cuvée des Caudalies Extra Brut Millesimé Champagne Grand Cru from Winery De Sousa are 2010, 2008

Informations about the Winery De Sousa

The winery offers 24 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
It is in the top 15 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Champagne Grand Cru in the region of Champagne
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The Winery De Sousa is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 20 wines for sale in the of Champagne Grand Cru to come and discover on site or to buy online.

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The wine region of Champagne Grand Cru

France/champagne">Champagne grand cru is a Sparkling white wine produced in the vineyards of the Champagne region of northeastern France and more specifically in the wine regions of the Montagne de Reims, the Vallée de la Marne, the Côte des Blancs, the Côte des Bar, the Côte de Sézanne and Vitry-le-François. Administratively, the Champagne grand cru can be produced in the departments of Marne, Aisne, Aube, Seine-et-Marne and Haute-Marne. Its vineyards benefit from a temperate-oceanic Climate with a continental influence and a Terroir made of limestone and marl soils. The Champagne Grand Cru wine can be made with the following main Grape varieties: Chardonnay B, Meunier N, Pinot N, Arbane B, Petit Meslier B, Pinot B.


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: Fermentation

The process by which grape juice becomes wine, thanks to the action of yeasts that transform sugar into alcohol.

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