Winery Piper-Heidsieck - Cuvée Essentiel Brut Champagne

Winery Piper-HeidsieckCuvée Essentiel Brut Champagne

Wine of France Sparkling wine of Champagne of France
3.9
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(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters generally liked this wine.
The Cuvée Essentiel Brut Champagne of Winery Piper-Heidsieck is a sparkling wine from the region 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 Essentiel Brut Champagne from the Winery Piper-Heidsieck

Light
Bold
Soft
Acidic
Gentle
Fizzy

In the mouth the Cuvée Essentiel Brut Champagne of Winery Piper-Heidsieck 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 microbio taste

yeast, cheese

Wine with earth taste

honey, stone

Wine with oak taste

caramel

Wine with vegetal taste

straw

On the nose the Cuvée Essentiel Brut Champagne of Winery Piper-Heidsieck in the region of Champagne often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, honey or yellow apple and sometimes also flavors of biscuits, citrus fruit or tree fruit.

Details and technical informations about Winery Piper-Heidsieck's Cuvée Essentiel Brut Champagne.

Winemaker
Régis Camus
Grape varieties
Region/Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
Alcohol
12°
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 Essentiel Brut Champagne - 2017
In the top 100 of of Champagne wines
Average rating: 3.911110
Cuvée Essentiel Brut Champagne - 2012
In the top 100 of of Champagne wines
Average rating: 4.111110
Cuvée Essentiel Brut Champagne - 2008
In the top 100 of of Champagne wines
Average rating: 4.111110
Cuvée Essentiel Brut Champagne - 2006
In the top 100 of of Champagne wines
Average rating: 3.81110.50

The best vintages of Cuvée Essentiel Brut Champagne from Winery Piper-Heidsieck are 2008, 2012, 2017, 2006

Informations about the Winery Piper-Heidsieck

The winery offers 36 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is in the top 15 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Champagne
Find the Winery Piper-Heidsieck on Facebook and on Twitter

The Winery Piper-Heidsieck is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 27 wines for sale in the of Champagne to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Champagne
In the top 15000 of of France wines
In the top 1500 of of Champagne wines
In the top 3000 of sparkling wines
In the top 45000 wines of the world

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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