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Ulysse Collin
Les Maillons 36 months (2017)
NV · based on 2017
4.6
Region
France › Champagne › Côte de Sézanne › Barbonne-Fayel › Champagne AOC
Type
white · traditional · sparkling · extra-brut
Grapes
Pinot Noir
Alcohol
12.5%
Volume
750 mL
Dosage
4.2 g/L
Disgorged
2021-03
On lees
36 months (3 years)
Tasting Notes(2)
4.6
Over the last two years, it has become wider and deeper. Sophisticated, elegant, and perfumed bouquet full of apple seeds, iodine, yellow fruits, red apple skin, yellow currant, plum, dough, graphite, with some Jerez notes and lanolin. On the palate, it has a generous core of minerality, bright acidity, fruits in the background, and a lively mousse. All that results in an insanely concentrated, precise, evolving, enveloping, and vinous wine. It's interesting how it opens up with some cider and pickled flavours. I can't help but wonder how this wine will evolve with time.
About
Pinot Noir vines were planted in 1971 in heavy, iron-rich clay soils with chalky limestone sub-soils. Hand-harvested, the clusters destemmed and the grapes gently pressed; the juice is fermented spontaneously and slowly (up to 6 months) with natural yeasts in mainly-used Burgundy barrels. Reserve wines are held in foudres and tonneaux. The wine is bottled without fining or filtering and aged on lees for 36 months.
