Clear wine tasting

As each year late January or early february, Marie-Noëlle Rainon-Henriet and her father are tasting the "clear wines"

First, what is a "clear wine" ? 

It's the juice of the grappes ofthe past harvest (the end of august 2011 in our case) which suffered its first alcoholic fermentation and it is converted in a flat (non sparkling) wine

At Champagne Henriet Bazin, each plot of land or vine sector, and each grape variety is pressed separatly to obtain very typical juices, reflecting the flavours of our terroirs. We own 37 plots of land distributed on Villers-Marmery (premier cru), Verzy and Verzenay (grand cru)

To elaborate the assemblages and discover great vintages, it is important to taste one by one, each of the 28 vats that contains a grape variety and a terroir. Villers-Marmery and its chardonnay growing on a gravel of chalk exposed to the East, Verzenay or Verzy, sometimes chardonnay but mostly pinot noir  on chalk flush or covered with limons, top of bottom of slopes, facing East or North-East...Are lots of micro-terroirs isolated so that each of them keep there best and more singulars flavours.

The atypical 2011 harvest wich went off from 23rd to the 31st of August due to the heat wave in spring (7 weeks of sun) gave powerful, fruity wines rich in aromas, with a nice acidity, synonym of great potental for aging.

Accompanied by Fabrice the oenologist, Geoffrey the specialist of the terroirs, Guillaume the collaborator and Thierry a friend who well knows the area, Marie-Noëlle Rainon-Henriet and her father, the guarantor of the gustatory heritage of the house, have validated their choice of the day before.

Champagne Henriet Bazin voreveals you some secrets on the cuvées that will be proposed...after afing in the cellars. :

2014 : achampagne brut rosé blended with 19% of pinot noir vinified as a red wine (AOC)

2016: millésime grand cru complex and élégant with 70% of pinot noir and 30% of chardonnay.

A future great cuvée !