Non-vintage Technical Specifications
Grape Varieties 50% Pinot Noir, 50% Chardonnay
Classification Brut Nature
Region Champagne
Soil Pure campanian chalk
Elevation 90.0 meters
Orientation East To West Exposure
Sites Les Crayons, Œuilly
Vine Age Massal selection planted from 1946 to 1948
Fermentation Vessels Burgundian oak barrels
Pressing Method Gentle Pressing By Gravity
Natural Yeast Yes
Oak Types Burgundian oak
Bottling Date 4 May 2006
Disgorgement Date 6 Jun 2022
Base Wine Years 2004, 2005
Unfined Yes
Unfiltered Yes
Production Volume 300 bottles
Bottles300
Production Details Multi-vintage release combining the 2004 and 2005 harvests from a single parcel on a 12% slope above the Marne. Following spontaneous fermentation, it spent 7 months on harvest lees in Burgundian oak barrels and 16 years on lees in bottle.
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2004 Technical Specifications
Grape Varieties 50% Pinot Noir, 50% Chardonnay
Classification Brut Nature
Region Champagne
Soil Raw chalk from the campanian
Elevation 90.0 meters
Orientation East To West Exposure
Harvest Dates 3 Oct 2004 and 2004-10-05
Sites Les Crayons, Œuilly
Vine Age Massal selection planted from 1946 to 1948 by Louis Tarlant
Fermentation Vessels Burgundian oak barrels
Pressing Method Slow Pressing By Gravity
Natural Yeast Yes
Oak Types Burgundian oak
Bottling Date 2 May 2005
Disgorgement Date 1 Feb 2021
Unfined Yes
Production Volume 3,000 bottles
Bottles3,000
Production Details Single-parcel wine from a 12% slope above the Marne. Spontaneous fermentation was followed by 8 months on harvest lees in Burgundian oak barrels. It then received 15 years and 9 months of bottle-lees ageing before disgorgement.
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1996 Technical Specifications
Grape Varieties 50% Chardonnay, 50% Pinot Noir
Classification Brut Nature
Region Champagne
Soil Particularly chalky soil
Sites Les Crayons, Œuilly
Vine Age Massal-selection Pinot Noir and Chardonnay planted from 1946 to 1948
Fermentation Vessels Burgundy barrels
Pressing Method Clusters Pressed Very Slowly And Gently
Natural Yeast Yes
Bottling Date 1997
Production Details A single-vintage exception to the normally multi-vintage Louis bottling, from a 0.9-hectare, organically farmed and hand-harvested parcel. Bowler says it was bottled in 1997, first released in 2025 and disgorged in June 2023. Embedded reviews document other bottle lots disgorged in June 2024 and on 15 October 2025, so no vintage-wide disgorgement date is proposed.
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