Champagne Moutardier Millésimé 2012
Gert Crum (Twitter and Facebook.)
Publicatie: 27 maart 2019
When you want to sample a fine meunier champagne, try this one, even though, in addition to 80% meunier, it also contains 20% chardonnay. It comes from a proper meunier terroir, a clay and limestone soil on the slopes of the Surmelin valley near Le Breuil, and just in the department of Marne. Le Breuil is not far south of Festigny and Leuvrigny, two crus renowned for their meunier.
The 2008 was a delight, and now the 2012 has recently been released.
It well competes with its predecessor.
Bubbles, like pin buttons so small, in a pale yellow decor, a nose characteristic of ripened meunier: quince, candied fruit, date, fresh mushroom with some wet undergrowth and then a broad, soft taste with ripe aromas of plum, fig, flint and again mushroom with a beautiful, elongated fresh finish.
The freshness gives the wine length. With some air, you can also taste grapefruit and chamomile. All in all fine, a complex champagne, wide and long with that typical meunier softness. Recommended.
Dutch import by Jasper Tasseron in Santpoort.
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