Region
France › Champagne › Côte des Blancs › Avize › Champagne AOC
Type
white · traditional · sparkling · extra-brut
Grapes
Chardonnay
Alcohol
12.5%
Volume
750 mL
Disgorged
2025-05
Tasting Notes(1)
4.2
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The vintage wine is how the Bonvilles write down a single year. They call 2018 exceptionally sunny and generous. The family farms four grand cru villages, but for this wine they took Avize alone.
The house's single-parcel cuvée, Les Belles Voyes, ferments in 228-litre Burgundy barriques. The Millésime does not: its alcoholic and malolactic fermentations both happen in stainless steel. It then spends about six years on its lattes before release.
It is disgorged in batches, and the dosage moves with them: 2 g/L for the May 2025 disgorgement, 5 g/L for the one in July.
A generous year, then, and the house's answer to it was time.