
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.
Champagne Moutardier is a specialist when it comes to meunier.
The domain covers 18 hectares, 80 percent of which is planted with meunier – chardonnay and pinot noir each account for 10 percent.
The family domain in 2020 is run by two brothers, William Saxby (32) and Simon Saxby (30). Saxby? Yes, mother Elisabeth Moutardier was married to an Englishman, hence Saxby.
William studied oenology at the Université de Reims, while Simon, at the same university, studied marketing.
It goes without saying that the division of roles between the two brothers is as it is: William is responsible for the production and Simon deals with the commercial side of the business.
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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