Winery Frerejean FrèresCuvée des Hussards Vieilles Vignes Extra Brut Champagne Premier Cru
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 Cuvée des Hussards Vieilles Vignes Extra Brut Champagne Premier Cru from the Winery Frerejean Frères
Light | Bold | |
Soft | Acidic | |
Gentle | Fizzy |
In the mouth the Cuvée des Hussards Vieilles Vignes Extra Brut Champagne Premier Cru of Winery Frerejean Frères 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 Cuvée des Hussards Vieilles Vignes Extra Brut Champagne Premier Cru of Winery Frerejean Frères in the region of Champagne often reveals types of flavors of citrus, minerality or toasty and sometimes also flavors of honey, non oak or earth.
Food and wine pairings with Cuvée des Hussards Vieilles Vignes Extra Brut Champagne Premier Cru
Pairings that work perfectly with Cuvée des Hussards Vieilles Vignes Extra Brut Champagne Premier Cru
Original food and wine pairings with Cuvée des Hussards Vieilles Vignes Extra Brut Champagne Premier Cru
The Cuvée des Hussards Vieilles Vignes Extra Brut Champagne Premier Cru of Winery Frerejean Frères matches generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of green lentils strasbourg style, skate wing with shallots or tagliatelle with seafood and saffron cream.
Details and technical informations about Winery Frerejean Frères's Cuvée des Hussards Vieilles Vignes Extra Brut Champagne Premier Cru.
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
The best vintages of Cuvée des Hussards Vieilles Vignes Extra Brut Champagne Premier Cru from Winery Frerejean Frères are 2012
Informations about the Winery Frerejean Frères
The Winery Frerejean Frères is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 8 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
Champagne premier 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 premier 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. Champagne Premier 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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