Champagne Chartogne Taillet Cuvée Sainte Anne NV

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Alcohol: 12.5%

Grape(s): Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier

Location: Champagne, France

Tasting Notes: The Sainte Anne cuvée expresses the character of wines from the various soils of Merfy, with each plot contributing its identity to the blend, revealing opulent textures on the palate that evolve into a salivating bitterness from the sandy soils and concluding with a tight, structured finish that reflects the origin of Champagne.

Notes: This release is based on 2019. Dosage is 5 grams per liter. Disgorged: March 2021. 

Sainte Anne is now aged and vinified in 228-, 350- and 2000-litre barrels. A small portion of this Champagne has been aged in tanks, mostly the reserve wines. The Champagnes of our village need oxygen to deliver the message indicative of their origins. Each plot is vinified differently (topped-up or not, casks of different provenances, etc.). This enables us to obtain unique and identifiable characteristics from this period in the life of our Champagnes. Once the aging of wines from each plot has been completed, we combine these different reflections of the village to create a blend that aims to be fully representative of Merfy's wines. We seek the crystalline texture emblematic of wines from Merfy's sandy limestone terroirs, to preserve our village's unique identity.

Winery Story: In the 7th century, the villages' wine growers, situated in Merfy, drew on the heritage of the Benedictine monks from the abbey of Saint Thierry. Generation after generation, Merfy's wine growers, together with the abbey, shaped the viticultural landscapes of our hillsides, meticulously separating each plot according to its geological origins, soils, subsoils, etc. Names were subsequently inscribed on maps of the village, and these became the "lieu-dits," which today nourish the roots of the vines growing there.

The traces of the wine growers in our family go back to 1490, with Nicolas Taillet, and Fiacre Taillet in 1540. By 1700, a second Fiacre Taillet, an erudite wine grower, was writing his memoirs recounting his lifework, as well as all the important events of the village, the family and his profession. The Chartogne-Taillet family continues this tradition of writing and savoir-faire inherited from this legacy of wine growing.

Every gesture is guided by a request from the plants, the vines and our environment.

Our work is guided by our observations and our senses. Every gesture is guided by a request from the plants, the vines and our environment. We have returned to the savoir-faire of wine growers from times long gone by, when man could not do harm by using products or machines. We work by hand, or with the help of our horses in the fields.

Understanding, by way of the saltiness, the textures, the lengths and the tastes, that wine's origins, from which soil and subsoil the vine has drawn its strength and its knowledge. We are the guarantors of this knowledge, to be passed on from one generation to another, from one bottle to the next.

Tasting a wine is like immersing yourself, from afar, in the flavours of a particular place.

Today, our gestures are guided by this transmitted know-how, and we adapt the Benedictines' winemaking practices to the new effervescence of the Champagne region. Preserving the flavours of this place by creating a wine that will soon sparkle. There is no need for certification, except the one that will allow us to capture the flavours of our terroir in our bottles.