Champagne Chartogne-Taillet Cuvee Sainte Anne Brut NV

Since taking over his family’s 12ha estate in 2006, Alexandre Chartogne has emerged as one of Champagne’s brightest rising stars. He uses organic treatments, promotes biodiversity through cover crops, and encourages deep-root systems through regular ploughing, often by horse rather than by tractor. In the cellar, each parcel is vinified separately with indigenous yeasts, in either oak barrels, stainless-steel tanks or concrete eggs, depending on the individual wine.

The resulting wines are incredibly complex, layered, nuanced. Fresh fruit of green apple, nectarine, citrus are married to savoury nuttiness, toasty spice, patisserie characters in a cavalcade of complexity and interest. Bright fizz, lots of that actually, a coursing pulse of energy through the vigorously frisky finish. Top shelf. 

Disgorged in April 2024

NV // 750ml // ABV 12%

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