Non-vintage Technical Specifications
Grape Varieties 100% Chardonnay
Drinking Window 2023–2032; merchant indicates 2028 as peak
Classification Grand Cru
Region Avize
Estate Grown Yes
Sites Robarts/Robards and Bionnes, Avize Grand Cru
Vine Age Old vines
Indigenous Yeast Yes
Bottling Date September 2017
Base Wine Years 2016, 2017
Unfined Yes
Unfiltered Yes
Serving Temperature 9°C · 48°F
Closure Cork
Production Details Current importer-listed release Exp 20 is a non-vintage Blanc de Blancs Brut Nature Grand Cru. Expérience is made only from grapes: no cultured yeast, sulfur, sugar or dosage is added during vinification, ageing or disgorgement; fresh unfermented pressed grape juice from the following harvest supplies the sugar and indigenous yeasts for prise de mousse. The producer additionally specifies old-vine Avize fruit, no external additives, cork closure, disgorgement two months before release and bottle-only availability. For historical EXP 16, the merchant PDF documents tête-de-cuvée juice from old Avize vines, no chaptalization, indigenous fermentation, one year in demi-muids, fresh juice from the following 2017 harvest for secondary fermentation, bottling under cork and staple in September 2017, and more than four years ageing sur lattes before zero-dosage disgorgement. For Expérience 17, the merchant documents indigenous fermentation, completed malolactic fermentation, maturation entirely in wooden demi-muids, cork-and-staple bottling and more than four years on lees.
Tasting Notes Fruity, spicy, mineral
Food Pairing Aperitif
Critics Ratings 95/100, Revue du Vin de France
Producer Information
Address
57 Avenue Jean Jaures, 51190 Avize, France
Phone
+33 (0)3 26 57 51 38
Owner
Pascal et Ambroise Agrapart
Cellarmaster
Pascal et Ambroise Agrapart