Region
France › Champagne › Montagne de Reims › Grande Montagne de Reims › Billy-le-Grand › Champagne AOC
Type
white · traditional · sparkling · extra-brut
Grapes
Chardonnay
Alcohol
12.5%
Volume
750 mL
Disgorged
2025-10
On lees
31 months (2.6 years)
Bottled
2023-03-29
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Tasting Notes(1)
4.0
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Alhena is Lamiable's Blanc de Blancs, and the odd one out in a Pinot-led house. The fruit is not from Tours-sur-Marne, where the house sits: it comes from Billy-le-Grand, a premier cru village on the eastern side of the Grande Montagne de Reims, and that is where the cru level on the bottle comes from. Tours-sur-Marne is grand cru, and Lamiable does bottle a Chardonnay from there as grand cru - Phéérie - so the two Blancs de Blancs carry different classifications for a reason of origin rather than of grape. Buying fruit outside the home village is possible because Lamiable works as a négociant-manipulant rather than a grower.
100% Chardonnay from the 2022 harvest, drawn into bottle in March 2023 and disgorged in October 2025 - thirty-one months on the lees - and finished Extra-Brut at 4.5 g/L, 12.5%.
