Winery Etienne CalsacLes Rocheforts Blanc de Blancs Champagne Premier Cru
Sparkling wine
This wine is composed of 100% of the grape variety Chardonnay.
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 Les Rocheforts Blanc de Blancs Champagne Premier Cru from the Winery Etienne Calsac
Light | Bold | |
Soft | Acidic | |
Gentle | Fizzy |
In the mouth the Les Rocheforts Blanc de Blancs Champagne Premier Cru of Winery Etienne Calsac in the region of Champagne is a powerful with a nice vivacity and a fine and pleasant bubble.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Les Rocheforts Blanc de Blancs Champagne Premier Cru of Winery Etienne Calsac in the region of Champagne often reveals types of flavors of citrus, apples or green apple and sometimes also flavors of minerality, lemon or non oak.
Food and wine pairings with Les Rocheforts Blanc de Blancs Champagne Premier Cru
Pairings that work perfectly with Les Rocheforts Blanc de Blancs Champagne Premier Cru
Original food and wine pairings with Les Rocheforts Blanc de Blancs Champagne Premier Cru
The Les Rocheforts Blanc de Blancs Champagne Premier Cru of Winery Etienne Calsac matches generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of chinchards with white wine and grapes, leek and fresh salmon tart or seafood, chorizo and chicken paella from patou.
Details and technical informations about Winery Etienne Calsac's Les Rocheforts Blanc de Blancs 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
The best vintages of Les Rocheforts Blanc de Blancs Champagne Premier Cru from Winery Etienne Calsac are N.V.
Informations about the Winery Etienne Calsac
The Winery Etienne Calsac is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 17 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: Grenache gris
A grey variety of Grenache grown in the Pyrénées-Orientales, the Aude and the southern Rhône valley. Its powerful and round wines are used in the blending of dry white or rosé wines and natural sweet wines.
