Winery Ernest RapeneauChampagne Premier Cru
Sparkling wine
This wine is a blend of 2 varietals which are the Chardonnay and the Pinot noir.
This wine generally goes well with pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish.
Food and wine pairings with Champagne Premier Cru
Pairings that work perfectly with Champagne Premier Cru
Original food and wine pairings with Champagne Premier Cru
The Champagne Premier Cru of Winery Ernest Rapeneau matches generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of chicken drumstick with bacon, salmon in bellevue or norman mussels with cider.
Details and technical informations about Winery Ernest Rapeneau's Champagne Premier Cru.
Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay
Whites with many faces: mineral and taut at Chablis (lemon, green apple, flint), opulent and buttery at Meursault and Puligny-Montrachet (hazelnut, brioche, yellow fruits), tense and chalky in Champagne (Blanc de Blancs). Also vinified sparkling and widely exported (Sonoma, Margaret River, Casablanca). A Burgundian variety, a cross of Pinot Noir × Gouais Blanc, half-sibling of Aligoté.
Last vintages of this wine
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Informations about the Winery Ernest Rapeneau
The Winery Ernest Rapeneau is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 14 wines for sale in the of Champagne Premier Cru to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Champagne Premier Cru
High-end Champagnes from 44 villages rated 90-99% on the cru scale (1919), between Grand Cru and generic. Fine, elegant sparklers based on Chardonnay (citrus, brioche, chalk), Pinot Noir (red fruits, structure) and Pinot Meunier (fruity roundness). Fine bubbles, controlled dosage, complexity heightened by lees ageing. Villages in the Montagne de Reims, Côte des Blancs and around Épernay.
The wine region of Champagne
World benchmark sparkling wines: fine bubbles, citrusy tension, notes of brioche, toasted almond, white flowers and white-fleshed fruits after ageing on lees. Three grapes blended or solo: fleshy Pinot Noir (38%), fruity Meunier (33%), chiselled Chardonnay (28%). From straight Blanc de Blancs to vinous Blanc de Noirs, from non-vintage Brut to age-worthy Millésimé. AOC since 1927, 34,300 ha on chalk, 17 Grands Crus and 44 Premiers Crus.
The word of the wine: Burgundy melon
A white grape variety from Burgundy that is not widely used in its native region, but has spread to the Nantes region. It is the exclusive variety of Muscadet. It gives a dry pale yellow wine, supple and lively, with an intense bouquet, to which maturing on lees gives fatness and aromatic complexity.
