Maison Delatour · Côte des Blancs, Champagne
Grande Cuvée Millésime
2012
Grilled brioche, Meyer lemon and white flowers over a chalk spine, the mousse so fine it reads as texture rather than bubbles.
€540
◆ 99 pts — International Sparkling Review
The Story
A bottle with a past
Delatour declares a millésime perhaps three times a decade. The 2012 rested eleven years on lees in chalk cellars thirty metres beneath Avize, emerging with the patina of a wine that has never been hurried by anyone.
“Great Champagne is chalk, time, and the discipline to release nothing early.”
The winemaker, Maison Delatour
Aroma Profile
What rises from the glass
Brioche8/10
Meyer lemon7/10
Chalk7/10
White flowers6/10
Almond5/10
At the Table
- — Oysters
- — Caviar on blini
- — Aged Parmesan
Vintage & Cellar
2012 — a tiny, tense harvest that produced Champagnes of rare completeness.
Horizontal, dark, 11°C. Serve in a tulip, never a flute.
- Grape
- Chardonnay
- Region
- Côte des Blancs, Champagne
- Country
- France
- Alcohol
- 12.5%
- Production
- 18,000 bottles
- Drinking window
- 2024 – 2042
- Serving
- 10–12°C, never over-chilled
- Collector grade
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