L'Atavique - Non-vintage Champagne that is a blend of all 65 parcels planted in the three sections (valleys) of Verzy; the easternmost has chalk very close to surface, in the middle valley chalk is 1 meter deep, and the westernmost valley is clay dominant. Uniquely strong presence of silex throughout the village. Translates to "atavistic" - relating to or characterized by a return to something ancient or ancestral.
The wine is composed from a cépages of sixty percent pinot noir and forty percent chardonnay. The wine offers up a beautifully refined bouquet of white peach, apple, bread dough, raw almond, chalky minerality, just a wisp of buttery oak and a topnote of dried flowers. On the palate the wine is crisp, fullbodied, focused and complex, with a fine core of fruit, excellent mineral undertow, very refined mousse and a long, vibrant and beautifully balanced finish.
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