Champagne Leclerc Briant
Le Clos de Trois Clochers Millesime 2016

The Champagne Le Clos de Trois Clochers Millésime 2016 by Domaine Leclerc Briant is a Blanc de Blancs resulting from 100% Chardonnay grapes harvested in the same-name plot (lieu-dit) located in Villers Allerand - a village classified as Premier Cru in the Greater Montagne de Reims. Harvest 2016 with vinification and refining for 9 months in oak barrels, followed by 36 months on its lees. Final dosage of 1 g/l - making it an Extra Brut - for this complex, elegant, creamy and mineral Champagne Blanc de Blancs.

The Champagne Le Clos de Trois Clochers Millésime 2016 presents itself with a bright and rather fluid hue, a lemon yellow colour with deep greenish yellow highlights. To the nose it is an invitation to the gourmet with bakery aromas, embodied by notes of toast and brioche. Aeration allows to appreciate notes of verbena and pear. To the palate it is refined, harmonious and creamy, revealing meticulous woodworking. It finishes in a finely lemony, spicy and salty universe. It will enhance seafood dishes such as oysters, salmon or a langoustine tartare with passion fruit. It also matches perfectly with semi-cured goat's cheese.

Champagne Leclerc Briant

The Leclerc domaine was born in 1872 in Cumiéres, created by Lucien Leclerc. In 1955 the family business turned into a Maison and Louis-Bertrand Leclerc linked his name with his wife's one (Jacqueline Briant) and launched the Maison Leclerc Briant, with a new office in Epernay. Their son Pascal has followed his father's steps and experimented biodynamics on their 30 hectares since 1964! In 2010 Leclerc Briant was the largest biodynamic champagne producer and in 1994 it was the first to offer a single-vine Champagne (lieux-dits). Unfortunately Pascal passed away in 2010 and the Maison fell into a dark period, also selling 75% of its own vines heritage, bought by an American couple in 2012. The idea is to help the maison restart, entrusting the remaining 7 hectares and the maison to Frédéric Zeimett, together with Pascal's first daughter: Ségolène Leclerc. Today the domaine has a biodynamic certification and produces more than 200,000 bottles a year. Interesting Champagnes which must be rediscovered.