Firm and powerful, yet elegant and refined, showing great balance and integration between fresh and stewed fruit, spice, candied citrus, toasted brioche, toasted nuts and honey with smoky, chalk, mineral and saliva inducing acidity. 66% Pinot Noir and 34% Chardonnay. Incredibly complex and fresh.
Aromatic and fresh with loads of spice, raspberry, peach, candied ginger and citrus peel, nuttiness and toastiness with great focus and firm backbone, creamy and layered, minerally and smoky and a lip-smacking finish that goes on and on. 72% Pinot Noir and 28% Chardonnay. Will become more expressive over the next 5 to 8 years, but should age well for the next 15.
Graceful and integrated with candied citrus, rich and complex with mouth-filling flavours of crushed berries, toasted nuts, baked bread, ginger spice and honey, creamy texture, chalky minerality and a pleasant bitterness. 70% Pinot Noir and 30% Chardonnay. Will continue to evolve and gain complexity over the next decade.
In many ways, this mirrors the flavour profile and structure of the Special Cuvée, but with more red flavours – wildberry, red currant, raspberry and cherry. Incredibly vibrant with mouth-watering acidity and multi-layered complexity, revealing more with every taste. 62% Pinot Noir, 24% Chardonnay and 14% Pinot Meunier. For those that still question (inexplicably) the natural affinity of bubbles for food, try this with duck or grilled langoustines and be delightfully schooled.
Fresh, creamy and nutty with elegance, finesse and complexity, a combination of ripe and cooked fruit aromas and flavours, baked apple, ginger and citrus peel, baked bread, mineral, a firm backbone and a lingering, layered and lifted finish. 70% Pinot Noir, 20% Chardonnay and 10% Pinot Meunier. Pair with popcorn for the perfect movie night indulgence.
A stunning 100% Chardonnay bubbly from the oldest cooperative in all of Champagne. Aged 5 years sur lie, it will appeal to those who like a more mature/autolytic (yeasty) style as it features baked apple, toast, caramel, yeast, anise and nuttiness. There is lovely freshness, splendid length and loads of pinpoint bubbles. Chapeau!
The Larmandier and Bernier families have a long history in Champagne, traced back to the French Revolution, but it was not until the marriage of Philippe Larmandier and Elisabeth Bernier in 1971 that Champagne Larmandier-Bernier was established. Larmandier-Bernier is a gem of a grower estate with 15 biodynamically farmed hectares in Grand Cru & Premier Cru villages of the Côte des Blancs. Latitude (formally known as Tradition) is a shimmering Chardonnay sourced from vineyards in Vertus, with 70% base wine (2009 vintage) fermented in stainless steel and 30% reserve wine from foudre and neutral oak. This was aged on the lees for over 2 years before dégorgement and topping with 4 gr/l dosage. A tight core of green apple is rapidly buffered out by crispy layers of meringue, pear pastry, green apple and the aforementioned shimmer, tight with chalk and minerality that propels this to a very elongated finish. Delicate and filigreed, yet with intensity.