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Ormes Rouge Les Montées
2022
4.1
Region
France › Champagne › Montagne de Reims › Vesle et Ardre › Ormes › Coteaux Champenois AOC
Type
red · still
Grapes
Pinot Noir
Alcohol
12.5%
Volume
750 mL
Tasting Notes(1)
4.1
Silky to the point of mischief - it drinks like cherry kompot, and I mean that fondly. The nose is more curious than complex: cherry and strawberry shading into sardine, menthol, pine, a faint trace of blood. Nothing here aims for fireworks; the whole point is balance and seamlessness, one texture from the first sip to the last. The acidity falls a step short, and I find I don't mind at all.
About
Ormes Rouge "Les Montees" 2022 is Bérêche's still red Coteaux Champenois - bottled under the appellation that lets Champagne growers release still wine. Per the back label it is 100% Pinot Noir from the Les Montees parcel in Ormes, on the western edge of the Montagne de Reims - the same Petite Montagne village that anchors the rose Campania Remensis range. The plot is small (~0.25 ha, old vines around 60 years per trade press write-ups). Vinified and aged in oak, bottled by gravity ("a la chevre a deux becs") in March 2024; just 880 bottles produced.
Still red from Champagne is a small, recent category - growers leaning on the Coteaux Champenois banner more often as the climate warms and the fruit ripens at usable still-wine tannin and acid levels. This is a quiet, patient style rather than a polished one.
