All wines
Bérêche & Fils
Cramant Grand Cru
2017
4.4
Region
France › Champagne › Côte des Blancs › Cramant › Champagne AOC
Type
white · traditional · sparkling · brut
Grapes
Chardonnay
Alcohol
12.5%
Volume
750 mL
Dosage
3 g/L
Disgorged
2022-07
On lees
48 months (4 years)
Tasting Notes(1)
4.4
My expectations are always high when Bérêche is in play, and luckily, this bottle was exceptional. Such a beautiful, intense, generous, and slightly perfumed bouquet of baked apples, zest, cider, yellow plums, fried nuts, spices, honey, and wet chalk. On the palate, it is pushing, filling, and stormy, evolving and lasting. Flavours of cider, spices, and fried nuts mixed with honey and chalk.
About
Cramant Grand Cru is Bérêche's Blanc de Blancs from the Cote des Blancs - 100% Chardonnay from two parcels in Cramant: Le Bateau and Chemin de Chalons. First vintage was the 2016. Old vines, vinified and aged in oak in the house style.
The 2017: vintage cuvee, 48 months on lees, disgorged July 2022 as Brut. Cramant chalk gives a particular kind of tightness - all bone and lift - and Bérêche's barrel work tempers that with shape and a measured texture without softening the line.
