2016 Champagne Agrapart Venus Blanc de Blancs

Highly Rated
Vintage Blanc de Blancs Grower Champagne at its absolute peak. Agrapart is one of the great Chardonnay producers in France, let alone Champagne itself. Chiselled brilliance.

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You couldn't find a Champagne that represents a greater contrast to the commercial industrial wines that make up a good portion of the region's production...

Venus is Chardonnay from a parcel of fruit from of vines planted in 1959, a section that takes up just a minuscule 0.3 hectares. The cuvee is named after the horse that worked the soils for many years - no machines or tractors allowed.

But taste and quality is key above all, and this is possibly Pascal Agrapart's greatest wine - intense purity, crystalline power, so coiled and tense when released, with so much more maturity to unfold. It's just a great wine.

Disgorged June 2022. This is a very special wine from a very special plot of dirt. It comes from one-third of a hectare of vines in the renowned Avize vineyard plot called La Fosse aux Pourceaux.
Yes, the Avizoise is one of the benchmark wines of the Côte des Blancs, and yet Vénus somehow takes everything to yet another level. It’s even deeper and retains plenty of finesse and mineral intensity to go with the wine’s pillowy layers of texture and serious complexity. It’s an intense wine that demands food and is worth decanting when young. It will also benefit from two or three years further aging (at least). Treat it like a great white wine, served at the table with proper wine glasses (we recommend a Burgundy shape) and you will be greatly rewarded. This cuvée is bottled without dosage.

Region: Champagne, France
Blend: Chardonnay (100%)
ABV: 12.50%
Closure: 750ml
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98 Points - “From old vines in lieu-dit La Fosse that are planted at somewhat lower density (1.2 meters apart) but where there are consequently very few missing vines or replants, Agrapart's striking 2016 Extra-Brut Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Vénus unwinds in the glass with scents of citrus oil, crisp stone fruit, toasted almonds, warm biscuits, orange zest and iodine. Full-bodied, concentrated and tightly wound, with terrific depth at the core, racy acids and a long, intensely saline finish, it's another brilliant wine from this benchmark grower-bottler.” - William Kelley (The Wine Advocate)

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