Bruno Michel “Cuvee Pauline” Blanc de Blanc 2002
PRODUCER
COUNTRY
France
WINE TYPE
Champagne
APPELLATION
Epernay
AGE OF VINES
30 to 72 years
FARMING
Organic
SOIL
Chalk
ALTITUDE
490 ft.
FERMENTATION
wild yeast
AGING
French Oak
DESCRIPTION
Estate vines of 35-60 years old in Moussy in Pierry, south of Epernay. It has been fermented in old oak barrels and aged for 10 months in them before being bottled and aged on the lees for 7 years. The wine has a pale color, with a spring of tiny bubbles and a nose of sweet spice cake and fragrant white flowers. This is elegant, restrained Champagne with a very long, gentle finish. It should keep for more than a decade, but will certainly make any occasion between now and then special!