Bouzy Rouge Les Vaudayants

Georges Remy made reds before he made Champagne, and Les Vaudayants is one of the parcels he still turns into a Bouzy Rouge.

The plot is just over 44 ares of clay and limestone, facing south to south-west, planted in 1975 from a massal selection. The same vines also give a rosé Champagne under the Vaudayants name.

The 2022 was picked on 11 September and sorted twice, once in the vineyard and again at the cellar. The bunches were destemmed by hand, without crushing. The wine fermented on native yeasts in 500-litre barrels, with fifteen days on the skins and three punch-downs.

From October 2022 to February 2024 it rested in second- to fourth-fill barrels. It was racked just once, on its way to bottle that February, with no fining and no filtration.

It came to 2,625 bottles. In the rosé Champagne of the same name, red wine from this parcel is a five per cent splash. Here it is the whole wine.