Adrien Dhondt Champagne Grand Cru Les Coullemets Le Mesnil-sur-oger 2018

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Producer	Adrien Dhondt
Country	France
Region	Champagne
Subregion	Champagne Grand Cru
Varietal	Chardonnay
Vintage	2018
Sku	12016113
Size	750ml

 

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In 1986, Eric Dhondt and Edith Grellet decided to stop selling off grapes to negociants and started Dhondt-Grellet. Their focus on farming translated into honest Champagnes from great holdings across the Côte des Blancs.

Starting with two hectares, the domaine has now tripled in size and starting gaining real attention when Adrien took over winemaking in 2012 at age 22. Today, joined by his sister Alice, he has slowly increased the range of Champagnes produced by isolating their holdings across the villages of Cramant and Cuis and bottling pure expressions of Chardonnay. Most recently, he launched a small negociant project to satisfy his curiosity outside of his own domaine’s style. 

Adrien has an ambitious vision with no signs of slowing down and we couldn’t be more excited about the direction of this young domaine. 

100% Chardonnay from the southern Côte des Blancs(near Chétillions). Time on lees: 3 years + 1 year aging under cork. Dosage: 1.5g/L

The 2019 Extra-Brut Blanc de Blancs Mesnil sur Oger Les Coullemets is brilliant, delivering a complex bouquet of peach, white flowers, hazelnuts and a subtle top note of acacia honey, followed by a full-bodied, satiny and layered palate that's both the most concentrated and the most tensile of these three lieu-dit bottlings. Les Coullemets is situated at the bottom of the slope, where the soils are shallower and the wines more mineral.