Winery Penet-Chardonnet - Terroir Escence Extra Brut Champagne Grand Cru

Winery Penet-ChardonnetTerroir Escence Extra Brut Champagne Grand Cru

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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 Terroir Escence Extra Brut Champagne Grand Cru of Winery Penet-Chardonnet is a sparkling wine from the region of Champagne Grand 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 Terroir Escence Extra Brut Champagne Grand Cru from the Winery Penet-Chardonnet

Light
Bold
Soft
Acidic
Gentle
Fizzy

In the mouth the Terroir Escence Extra Brut Champagne Grand Cru of Winery Penet-Chardonnet 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 oak taste

oak, vanilla

Wine with earth taste

honey

Wine with microbio taste

cream

On the nose the Terroir Escence Extra Brut Champagne Grand Cru of Winery Penet-Chardonnet in the region of Champagne often reveals types of flavors of cream, oaky or minerality and sometimes also flavors of nutty, non oak or earth.

Details and technical informations about Winery Penet-Chardonnet's Terroir Escence Extra Brut Champagne Grand Cru.

Winemaker
Alexandre Penet
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

Terroir Escence Extra Brut Champagne Grand Cru - 2010
In the top 100 of of Champagne Grand Cru wines
Average rating: 4.511110.5

The best vintages of Terroir Escence Extra Brut Champagne Grand Cru from Winery Penet-Chardonnet are 2010

Informations about the Winery Penet-Chardonnet

The winery offers 16 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
This winery is part of the La Maison Penet.
It is in the top 3 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Champagne Grand Cru in the region of Champagne

The Winery Penet-Chardonnet is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 15 wines for sale in the of Champagne Grand Cru to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Champagne
In the top 6000 of of France wines
In the top 850 of of Champagne Grand Cru wines
In the top 1500 of sparkling wines
In the top 25000 wines of the world

The wine region of Champagne Grand Cru

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: Film maceration

A technique that consists of leaving the grapes to macerate in the open air at a low temperature before fermentation, thus enhancing the aromatic expression of the wine.

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