Region
France › Champagne › Côte des Blancs › Le Mesnil-sur-Oger › Champagne AOC
Type
white · traditional · sparkling · brut
Grapes
Chardonnay
Alcohol
12%
Volume
750 mL
Dosage
6.15 g/L
Disgorged
2023-10-30
On lees
~18 months (~2 years)
Available at
- Wine Bureau#R9819
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The Cuvée de Réserve is Pierre Péters' flagship NV - a Blanc de Blancs from the Côte des Blancs Grand Crus, with Le Mesnil-sur-Oger as the heart and Oger, Cramant, Avize, and Chouilly as the supporting parcels. The blend is roughly half from a single base vintage and half from the house's perpetual reserve, a solera-like system started in 1988 and now drawing on more than twenty vintages, kept in stainless steel, concrete, and large oak foudres.
This release is built on the 2021 base vintage and was disgorged 30 October 2023 after roughly eighteen months on lees. Twelve percent alcohol, brut dosage. The aim is consistency rather than vintage statement: the perpetual reserve smooths the harvest-to-harvest variation, so each Cuvée de Réserve carries the house signature - chalk, salt, citrus, white flowers - regardless of how the base year behaved on its own.
