Savart L`Ouverture Champagne Premier Cru, NV

Savart L`Ouverture Champagne Premier Cru, NV

Regular price $85.00

Made with 100% Pinot Noir from the Premier Cru village of Ecueil, this champagne is a blend of three successive vintages and aged under cork. With a dosage of 7g/L, it offers a perfect balance of ripe flavor, crispy acidity, firm minerality, and meaty fruit. While excitedly pouring this for us at a show in New York, Frédéric Savart himself said with wide eyes, "THIS is 100% Pinot Noir." You'll have to experience what he-and we- are so enthusiastic about over special meal or, with a juicy burger and a big bowl of French Fries.

  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Medium Acid
  • Fruit Forward

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PAIRS well WITH

  • Charcuterie & Cured Foods
  • Soft Cheese
  • Poultry

Details

From our Importer: Fred Savart is a force to be reckoned with. Tasting in his cellar is as much a tour of the various terroirs of the Montagne de Reims as it is a discussion of what’s new in the wine world. Fred is first and foremost a farmer but right behind that he is a bonafide wine geek. His cellar's entrance is lined with dead soldiers from all the great names and his idea of having you over for dinner is blind tasting you on things that he's really excited about at that moment.

Constantly evolving, Fred is making almost a dozen wines from just 4 hectares. In his own words, his winery is "a laboratory of terroirs and a creator of cuvées."

Frédéric Savart was born into a family of vignerons, but his real dream was to be a professional footballer. He even signed a youth contract with Stade de Reims, but after meeting the woman who was to become his wife, he refused a potential transfer to another club, and decided to return home to work with his father, Daniel. The family estate was founded by Daniel's father, René Savart, who purchased his first vines in 1947. Daniel himself took over the winemaking in the 1970s, although production remained extremely small until the mid-1980s, when he significantly expanded the family's vineyard holdings. Fred returned in 1993 at age 23 and in 2001 he left the cooperative, only doing pressing there. Since 2005, Frédéric has been at the helm of the estate.

L'Ouverture is 100% Pinot Noir all from the village of Ecueil, half of which was fermented in mostly neutral barrel with the other half is fermented in stainless steel. The wine only sees partial malolactic fermentation. Fred doesn't guide the malolactic fermentation, instead it is the inclusion of reserve wine that goes through malolactic fermentation because it has gone more temperature swings.

The wine is in equal parts a blend of three successive vintages and aged under cork, not crown cap. Dosage is 7g/L.

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