Champagne Dremont-Marroy, "Eclosion" Pinot Noir Extra-Brut 2019

Alcohol: 12.5% Grape(s): 100% Pinot Noir Location: Champagne, France Tasting Notes: The nose opens with an already marked sense of evolution, featuring undergrowth, ripe apple, acacia honey, old wood and warm spices. There's also a surprisingly light hint of dill. On the palate, the attack is fresh, contrasting with the nose. One senses the ageing of the wood, richness combined with a certain purity. The wine evolves with typical aromas of nuts and cinnamon applesauce. A spicy finish with a few bitters that will benefit from further refinement. An intriguing champagne that leaves no one indifferent. Winery Story: Our great-grandmother was a charismatic woman. She was a cultivated woman who loved her land, working as both a winegrower and a schoolteacher. She wrote the first pages of the family estate’s history. Our grandparents, Jean-Marie and Geneviève Drémont, were mainly farmers and stockbreeders and had only 1 ha of vines. The first bottle of Champagne was put on sale in 1955. It was our parents, Jean-Louis Drémont and Françoise Marroy, who planted most of the vineyard by hand, year after year, increasing its size from 1 to 7.5 ha. For a long time, our parents led a double life, switching between farming and winegrowing. After pruning the vines, there was plowing to be done; straight after trellising came the harvest, and when it was time to plant the vines, they also had to sow cereals. And they also had to round up runaway sheep in the evenings! Nowadays, we, their children, are rising to a new challenge: that of producing our own wines so that we hear the voice of each of our growing plots.