Champagne Lelarge-Pugeot
Les Charmes de Vrigny 2010

The Champagne Les Charmes de Vrigny by Lelarge-Pugeot is the result of an assemblage of 50% Meunier, 30% Pinot Noir and 20% Chardonnay from the 40-year-old vineyards classified as Premier Cru located in Vrigny, in the north-western part of the Montagne de Reims. This Champagne comes from the 2010 vintage plus a portion of wines stored in the cellar according to the Solera Method; after a natural fermentation in steel, it spends 6 years on its yeasts. Dosage of 2 g/l of sugar - making it an Extra Brut.

Les Charmes de Vrigny is a Champagne that already from its name demonstrates all the elegance, charm of the terroir of Vrigny. Wide and decisive aromas of white flowers, candied peel, crunchy almonds and custard. The taste is clear, so freshness and flavour are perfectly balanced and the finish is very long and persistent. A Champagne to be enjoyed during an important dinner or refined aperitifs; particularly interesting is combination with foie gras.

Champagne Lelarge-Pugeot

The Domaine Lelarge-Pugeot has a history of well over 200 years, when the first ancestor of the Lelarge family settled in Vrigny, in the north-western part of the Montagne de Reims, a village now classified as Premier Cru. Here, the long tradition of agriculture and family wine-growing began, intertwined with European history and overcoming two wars, arriving at the bottling of its first cuvées in the distant 1930s. More recently - in the early 1980s - Dominique Lelarge took over the reins of the estate and married Dominique Pugeot, his partner at the Burgundy School of Viticulture. The two founded the current Lelarge-Pugeot, and from the very beginning their production was based on sustainability and respect for nature and biodiversity. This philosophy has consolidated year after year in the two winegrowers who move from the grassing of the vineyards to the use of horses for work in the vineyards, until they received the organic certification in 2010, the same year in which the first cuvée 100% Meunier was bottled, from the ancestral grape of the Domaine. Today, Lelarge-Pugeot is certified organic in all its vineyards, with a part in conversion to biodynamics - which already in 2017 played a role for the certified vintage. Less and less importance towards harvest quantity and more and more constant quality characterize the production of the Domaine, which has now started a new generation of young vignerons - the eighth - who aim at creating cuvées and Coteaux de Champenois Rouge that are sincere and authentic results of a great terroir and the wisdom of a family with a long history of wine-making.