Champagne Suenen - La Grande Vigne Blanc de Noirs Grand Cru Extra Brut 2018 Bouteille (75cl)
The 2018 Champagne Suenen La Grande Vigne is an Extra Brut white sparkling Champagne, crafted by Aurélien Suenen and classified as a Champagne Grand Cru. This single-plot cuvée comes from the 'La Grande Vigne' lieu-dit, located in Montigny-sur-Vesle. The stated grape variety is 100% Chardonnay. The house's vintage single-plot cuvées undergo approximately five years of lees aging in bottle prior to disgorgement.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- Sparkling White
- Pays
- France
- Région
- Champagne
- Producteur / Domaine
- Suenen
- Cuvée
- La Grande Vigne
- Millésime
- 2018
Suenen
Located in Cramant, Champagne Suenen is a family estate managed by Aurélien Suenen since 2009. Its five hectares are spread across the grands crus of Cramant, Chouilly, and Oiry in the Côte des Blancs, as well as the Massif de Saint-Thierry. The estate notably crafts single-plot Blanc de Blancs, including La Cocluette and Les Robarts, as well as La Grande Vigne, made from Meunier in Montigny-sur-Vesle.
- Owner
- Aurélien Suenen
- Maître de chais
- Aurélien Suenen
- Surface (ha)
- 5.00 ha
- Production (average bottles per vintage)
- 35000
Histoire du domaine
The Suenen family has been established in Champagne for five generations: its winegrowing roots date back to 1898, while the founding of the estate is generally dated to 1905. After the Second World War, Bernard Suenen developed estate-bottling. His son Daniel expanded the vineyard, progressively increasing sales from around 4,000 to 20,000 bottles, and created the family's first vintage champagnes. When Daniel fell ill in 2008, Aurélien Suenen took on more responsibilities, then assumed management of the estate following his father's passing in 2009. He then restructured the range and the vineyard, discontinued the use of herbicides and insecticides starting in 2012, and deepened parcel-by-parcel vinification. Les Robarts, in Cramant, was isolated starting from the 2012 harvest; La Cocluette in Oiry, Le Mont-Aigu in Chouilly, and La Grande Vigne in Montigny-sur-Vesle followed with the 2013 vintage.
La Grande Vigne
Single-plot Champagne crafted exclusively from Pinot Meunier originating from La Grande Vigne in Montigny-sur-Vesle, within the Massif de Saint-Thierry. This vintage cuvée is distinguished by its old ungrafted vines planted on sandy soils and by vinification in oak barrels followed by a long ageing on lees in the bottle.
- Origin of the cuvée name
- The name echoes that of the plot and lieu-dit "La Grande Vigne" in Montigny-sur-Vesle.
- Cuvée creation year
- 2013
- Style of the cuvée
- Blanc de noirs of Meunier with a vinous, concentrated, and textured profile, balanced by lively acidity, mineral tension, and a generally saline finish marked by fine bitterness.
- Position within the range
- Rare single-plot cuvée and the only pure Meunier among Suenen's vintage lieux-dits.
Histoire de la cuvée
La Grande Vigne has been vinified separately starting from the 2013 harvest, as part of the development of Aurélien Suenen's single-plot Champagnes. While parting with most of the family vines located far from Cramant, the producer kept this unique plot of Meunier in Montigny-sur-Vesle.
