"...One of Champagne’s great treasures."
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| “Tasting in this tiny cellar is always one of the highlights of my trips to Champagne. Vincent Laval crafts transparent wines loaded with class and personality. Laval brings his fruit in around 11-11.5%, quite high by Champagne standards. At those levels, wines do not require chaptalization. All of the wines are aged in oak. In fact, tasting here is not unlike being in Burgundy - especially when it comes to the scale, which is minuscule. These transparent, crystalline Champagnes are well worth the effort to find …. Old vines and a non-interventionalist approach in both the vineyards and cellar yield stark, deeply expressive Champagnes that marry density of fruit with the intensely mineral style that is such a signature of Cumières, where all of the vineyards for the top wines are located …. The Champagnes I tasted were all compelling and were also terrific examples of a house style that emphasizes sustainable farming, low yields, and minimal intervention in the cellar. Rich, vinous, and full of energy, the Laval Champagnes are some of the most original, deeply personal wines readers will come across.” Antonio Galloni, Vinous |
| "This tiny, impeccably-run estate in Cumières is known only to a select few connoisseurs of champagne. You could drive through the village a hundred times without knowing it was there, and in fact, aside from a well-worn, barely legible placard with the words 'Champagne Georges Laval' written in about three-millimeter-high script just above the doorbell, there is no marking whatsoever to indicate its presence. Behind these simple, unassuming wooden doors, however, lies one of Champagne’s great treasures."
Peter Liem, ChampagneGuide.net |
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GARENNES EXTRA BRUT (BASE 2020) NV
"Garennes is a multi-vintage solera-type blend featuring Pinot Meunier, Pinot Noir, and Chardonnay from the villages of Chambrecy, Damery, Cumières, and Hautvillers. This ongoing blend is then blended with at least 50% of the current vintage base wine from the same plots and varietals. Notes of mineral, pear, and citrus on the nose lead into a wine with gorgeous balance and persistence. The sophisticated balance between precise mineral precision and fleshy texture make this a wine with few precedents in our experience."
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GEORGES LAVAL
CUMIÈRES 1ER CRU BRUT NATURE 2020 "55% Pinot Noir, 10 Pinot Meunier, and 35% Chardonnay. Bottled in the spring after the harvest and aged in neutral oak for 6 months, it is then disgorged with no added sugar after 18 months and released shortly thereafter. Although due to the regulations in Champagne this is not technically a vintage bottling because it does not spend the required three years sur latte, this wine is never a blend of vintages. The year of harvest is revealed above as the last two digits in the item code. This is a blend of Vincent Laval’s south-facing premier cru vineyards in Cumières, just west of Epernay. Quite vinous in texture with no sweetness on the palate, the nose combines citrus, mineral, and just a hint of toast. Quite dry on the palate .... Ripe fruit is laced with scratchy mineral texture and long-term persistence. Like precious few Champagnes, this is a very serious wine that will reward, year after year, any cellaring that it is accorded."
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