Ployez Jacquemart Extra Quality Brut

Description

Gold tints. Plenty of autolytic development, and the aroma of just-wrinkled, super-sweet golden delicious apples. Mouthfilling lacy mousse. Beautiful intensity. Slightly bitter seam around a heart of fresh crunchy fruit, spice and brioche. Full yet diaphanous. So much pleasure per sip. Drink from 2013-2016. VGV (TC). (04/13) – 17 out of 20 Points, Jancis Robinson’s Purple Pages. Wine: The new release of the Ployez-Jacquemart non-vintage Brut is outstanding on both the nose and palate. The blend is made up of sixty percent pinot noir and pinot meunier, combined with forty percent chardonnay. The bouquet is deep, quite marked by its red grape components and beautifully complex, as it jumps from the glass in a blaze of ripe apple, blood orange, fresh-baked bread, caraway seed, citrus peel and a very complex base of minerality. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and snappy, with a great core of fruit, bright acids, great focus, very fine mousse and exceptional grip on the very long, minerally and intensely flavored finish. There is a depth and flavor authority here that is most rare in Brut NVs, and as good as this wine is today, it will only get better if cellared for a few years. Superb bubbly. 2010-2030. – Importer Producer: Ployez-Jacquemart is recognized as being a top producer regularly by the Wine Spectator, Jancis Robinson, Revue de Vin de France, Peter Liem, View from the Cellar and the Wine Advocate. John Gilman offer that the wines of Ployez-Jacquemart are, one of the best-kept secrets in the realm of world class bubbly. The wines have never varied from their classic, complex and beautifully balanced style that emphasizes stunning purity of fruit, superb minerality, gentle leesy tones, very refined mousse and simply stunning complexity. Laurence Ployez is a third-generation winemaker at her family’s estate, which was established in 1930. Ployez-Jacquemart owns 2.15 hectares of Premier Cru and Grand Cru vineyards in Ludes and Mailly-Champagne in the Montagne de Reims, known for its classic chalk slopes. Laurence purchases Premier Cru and Grand Cru grapes from 12 hectares of vineyards from growers that the family has worked with for over 20 years. All of the work in the vineyards is done by hand, from the beginning of the growing season until the grapes are harvested. Only first press juice goes into the Ployez-Jacquemart wines. A light filtration is used for wines produced in vats, but no filtration is used on wines aged in wooden barrels. The wines undergo a very slow bottle fermentation in a 25 meter-deep cellar, giving them extremely fine bubbles. Wines are aged nose to punt, or sur pointe, in lieu of being aged on their side. Aging sur pointe provides the antioxidative and aging benefits of the lees while not allowing the wines to become too rich from the lees contact. When the wines are ready to be disgorged, after up to 12 years in the cellar, only a very minimal dosage is added, typically 3-4g/liter. Ployez-Jacquemart’s goal is to leave the structure of each wine intact, allowing the true character and personality of the harvest to shine through. Unlike most producers in Champagne, she strives to keep the characteristic of each vintage even in her NV blends and only uses a very small amount of reserve wine, if any at all. – Importer