Champagne Brut Nature
Les Clos - Barbaries 2022

The Champagne Les Clos - Barbaries by Ponson conveys the contemporary sensitivity of Maxime Ponson, a young vigneron who, together with his sister Camille, runs the family Domaine in Coulommes-la-Montagne, in the Petite Montagne de Reims, an area that has been drawing growing attention in recent years for the precision and freshness of its wines. This Blanc de Blancs comes from Premier Cru vines in the village of Ville-Dommange, grown on predominantly limestone soils that give the Chardonnay a taut and luminous texture. The Domaine’s approach aims to preserve authenticity and a sense of place through minimal intervention and a direct reading of each vintage.

This edition, from the 2022 harvest, is made exclusively from Chardonnay grapes, with vinification and maturation in 500-litre barriques that bring a gentle micro-oxygenation, broadening complexity and depth without altering the precision of the fruit or the mineral expression of the terroir. Fermentation takes place with indigenous yeasts, without filtration or cold stabilisation. After tirage, the wine ages on its lees for about 30 months, gaining breadth and texture while keeping its tension intact, and it is released with no final dosage, in the Brut Nature style, ensuring a rigorous, vertical and deeply terroir-driven character.

On tasting, Les Clos - Barbaries 2022 stands out for a refined and vibrant profile, marked by notes of citrus, white flowers, yellow-fleshed fruit and chalky hints that reflect the limestone origin of the terroir. On the palate it is slender and precise, supported by a fine bubble and a marked saline quality that carries it towards a long, taut and persistent finish, in a complete balance of fruit ripeness, freshness and expressive purity. Production in a limited run of 2,000 bottles.