Non-vintage Technical Specifications
Grape Varieties 100% Chardonnay
Classification Extra Brut
Region Champagne
Soil Craie à silex (flinty chalk)
Sites Villenauxe-la-Grande, from the producer's oldest Sézannais parcels
Indigenous Yeast Yes
Dosage 1.0 g/L
Base Wine Years 2016
Production Details Current producer specification: spontaneous ground cover, soil ploughing and no chemical products; low-intervention vinification; 10–18 months in barrels; each barrel is filled from 300 L of coeur de cuvée from the producer's oldest Sézannais parcels; tirage under cork. Historical sampled-bottle context: Gismondi's 9 October 2025 note identifies an NV bottle from the 2018 harvest, native-fermented with full malolactic conversion, vinified for 11 months in 300 L barrels, then held four years under cork before disgorgement in April 2023 at 3 g/L. A separate bottle reviewed 24 April 2023 had been bottled under agrafe in 2018, was unfiltered, and was disgorged in March 2022 at 3 g/L. These historical dosage and disgorgement observations are bottle-specific and are not generalized to every NVXX release.
Tasting Notes Gault&Millau 2026: woody and smoky, followed by pepper, licorice, roasted peach and mango, candied kumquat, a powerful creamy texture, barrel-derived tannins and a citrus-driven finish.
Food Pairing Grilled red meat or white meat in a morel cream sauce
Critics Ratings 88