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Lamiable
Montagne de Reims, France5 wines4.0 avg
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Tours-sur-Marne, Grand Cru. Third-generation grower house - Ophélie Lamiable (since 2003) with her husband Arnaud. ~6 hectares Grand Cru Pinot-led; the crown cuvée is Les Meslaines - old-vine Blanc de Noirs from the 1953 family parcel.
Champagne Lamiable sits in Tours-sur-Marne, a 100% Grand Cru village on the eastern edge of the Grande Montagne de Reims (though the commune itself straddles the Marne river, and some sources place it in the Grande Vallée de la Marne). The Lamiables settled in Tours in the eighteenth century; the current house was built in 1859 by Louis Hippolyte Lamiable. The Champagne business proper dates to Pierre Lamiable planting the estate's first vines at the Les Meslaines parcel in the early 1950s, with the first bottles marketed in 1955 - Auguste and Pierre dug the cellars themselves, over twenty winters. Second generation was Jean-Pierre Lamiable, a sports-medicine doctor who took over in 1972 and transformed the estate from grape-grower to producer. Third generation: Ophélie Lamiable, who returned to Tours in 2003 and now runs the house with her husband Arnaud.
Around 6 hectares of Grand Cru vine (some older listings cite 8 including the Bouzy holding), Pinot-led with roughly a third Chardonnay, across four named sites: two parcels in Les Meslaines, the Clos de Goësse (a Chardonnay parcel), Ambuyères, plus one in Bouzy for Pinot Noir. Sustainable farming: organic fertilizer, no herbicides, no insecticides, fungicide only against mildew; wines certified vegan.
The range is classical Grand Cru Pinot-led Champagne: Souffle d'Étoiles Brut (the Tradition, 60/40 PN-Ch), Éclat d'Étoiles Rosé, and the crown cuvée Les Meslaines - Grand Cru Blanc de Noirs, 100% old-vine Pinot from the 1953 parcel, seven to eight years on lees, around 3,500 bottles a vintage. Historically also a Coteaux Champenois Bouzy Rouge.
