Winery Stephane HerbertCuvée Excellence Champagne Premier Cru
Sparkling wine
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 Excellence Champagne Premier Cru from the Winery Stephane Herbert
Light | Bold | |
Soft | Acidic | |
Gentle | Fizzy |
In the mouth the Cuvée Excellence Champagne Premier Cru of Winery Stephane Herbert 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 Excellence Champagne Premier Cru of Winery Stephane Herbert in the region of Champagne often reveals types of flavors of citrus, apples or minerality and sometimes also flavors of brioche, non oak or earth.
Food and wine pairings with Cuvée Excellence Champagne Premier Cru
Pairings that work perfectly with Cuvée Excellence Champagne Premier Cru
Original food and wine pairings with Cuvée Excellence Champagne Premier Cru
The Cuvée Excellence Champagne Premier Cru of Winery Stephane Herbert matches generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of croque madame, cod and potato gratin or seafood and mushroom quiche.
Details and technical informations about Winery Stephane Herbert's Cuvée Excellence 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 Cuvée Excellence Champagne Premier Cru from Winery Stephane Herbert are 2017
Informations about the Winery Stephane Herbert
The Winery Stephane Herbert is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 9 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: Sulphur
An antiseptic and antioxidant substance known since antiquity, probably already used by the Romans. But it was only in modern times that its use was rediscovered. It will allow a better conservation of the wine and thus favour its export. Sulphur also gave the 18th century winegrower the possibility of extending the maceration period without fearing that the wine would turn sour and thus go from dark rosé wines to the red wines of today. Excessive sulphur, on the other hand, kills happiness, paralysing the aromas and causing headaches.
