Winery Frerejean Frères - Cuvée des Hussards Vieilles Vignes Extra Brut Champagne Premier Cru

Winery Frerejean FrèresCuvée des Hussards Vieilles Vignes Extra Brut Champagne Premier 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 Hussards Vieilles Vignes Extra Brut Champagne Premier Cru of Winery Frerejean Frères is a sparkling wine from the region of Champagne Premier Cru of Champagne.
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

Wine with earth taste

honey

Wine with oak taste

butter, oak

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.

Details and technical informations about Winery Frerejean Frères's Cuvée des Hussards Vieilles Vignes Extra Brut Champagne Premier Cru.

Winemaker
Frerejean Frères
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 Hussards Vieilles Vignes Extra Brut Champagne Premier Cru - 2012
In the top 100 of of Champagne Premier Cru wines
Average rating: 4.211110

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 offers 11 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
It is in the top 5 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Champagne Premier Cru in the region of Champagne
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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.

Top wine Champagne
In the top 35000 of of France wines
In the top 3000 of of Champagne Premier Cru wines
In the top 8000 of sparkling wines
In the top 150000 wines of the world

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.

News related to this wine

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At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Uchizy

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Uchizy, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWine ...

The word of the wine: Chai

Place where the wine-making process takes place.

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