Champagne Agrapart Avizoise 2020 Bouteille (75cl)
The Champagne Agrapart Avizoise 2020 is a Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs from Champagne by Agrapart et Fils, crafted exclusively from chardonnay. This vintage cuvée comes from selected parcels in Avize, Robarts and Gros Yeux, featuring deeper clays overlying the chalk. It is bottled under cork and staples, then disgorged two months before release. Its dosage is limited to 3 grams per litre, in keeping with the cuvée's Extra Brut style. Avizoise thus highlights the fuller, more generous expression of the Avize terroirs, while retaining the elegance characteristic of the great chardonnays of the Côte des Blancs.
The bottle offered
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Packaging
- Loose
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Wine details
- Couleur
- Sparkling White
- Pays
- France
- Région
- Champagne
- Producteur / Domaine
- Agrapart et Fils
- Cuvée
- Avizoise
- Millésime
- 2020
Cépage et assemblage
- Grape Variety
- 100% Chardonnay
Agrapart et Fils
Champagne Agrapart et Fils, now known as Champagne Pascal Agrapart, is a family-run estate run by a ‘récoltant-manipulant’ based in Avize, on the Côte des Blancs. Its 12-hectare vineyard is mainly planted with Chardonnay in the Grand Cru villages of Avize, Cramant, Oiry and Oger, with viticultural practices centred on soil management and on-estate winemaking.
- Owner
- Famille Agrapart (Pascal et Ambroise Agrapart)
- Maître de chais
- Pascal Agrapart
- Surface (ha)
- 12.00 ha
- Production (average bottles per vintage)
- environ 100 000 bouteilles/an
Histoire du domaine
The estate was founded in Avize in 1894 by Arthur Agrapart, who was already a winegrower and winemaker. Its development was hampered during the first half of the 20th century, particularly by the consequences of the First World War. In the 1950s and 1960s, Pierre Agrapart, the founder’s grandson and Pascal’s father, restored the estate to working order and gradually expanded the vineyard by purchasing plots of land. Pascal Agrapart joined the estate in 1980 and took over its management in the mid-1980s. From the late 1980s onwards, he shifted the vineyard management towards an approach free from synthetic herbicides and pesticides, based in particular on ploughing and compost. At the same time, the estate developed a system of vinifying each plot separately in order to distinguish the origins of its grapes. Ambroise Agrapart, Pascal’s son, joined the estate in 2018 and now works alongside his father in the vineyard and the cellar. The estate is now listed under Ambroise Agrapart’s name by *La Revue du vin de France*, whilst the estate’s communications refer to Pascal and Ambroise Agrapart as owner-growers-winemakers.
Avizoise
L’Avizoise is a 100% Chardonnay vintage cuvée originating from two old Grand Cru parcels in Avize, Les Robarts and La Voie d’Épernay. Located on the upper slope, they feature relatively deep, clayey soils over chalk. This origin notably distinguishes it from Minéral, which comes from chalkier terroirs.
- Style of the cuvée
- A vinous, ample, and deep Blanc de Blancs, generally presented as one of the most powerful expressions in the range. The clayey soils impart greater width and richness while preserving the freshness and mineral backbone characteristic of the wines of Avize.
- Position within the range
- A top-tier parcel-selection vintage cuvée, described as one of Agrapart's most powerful expressions.
Histoire de la cuvée
Sources differ regarding its initial creation: a specialized publication mentions the 1995 vintage, whereas an interview with Pascal Agrapart dates the beginning of L’Avizoise to 1999. Lacking official confirmation to resolve this discrepancy, the exact year of creation remains undetermined.
