Champagne Agrapart Complantée
La Complantée d’Agrapart et Fils is a non-vintage white Grand Cru Champagne crafted in Avize. This Extra Brut cuvée brings together the six grape varieties permitted in Champagne through complantation: Arbane, Chardonnay, Petit Meslier, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Meunier, and Pinot Noir. Sourced from the terroir of Avize, it blends two vintages. Disgorgement takes place approximately two months before commercialization, with a dosage limited to 5 g/L, highlighting a dry and precise style.
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
- Complantée
- Millésime
- Non Vintage
Cépage et assemblage
- Grape Variety
- Arbane, Chardonnay, Petit Meslier, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Meunier, Pinot Noir
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.
Complantée
Complantée is a cuvée from a small plot in Avize planted with Chardonnay, Pinot noir, Meunier, Pinot blanc, Arbane, and Petit Meslier. The six grape varieties are complanted in the same plot and vinified together. This non-vintage champagne blends multiple harvest years.
- Origin of the cuvée name
- The name refers to the complantation in a single plot in Avize of six Champagne grape varieties harvested and vinified together.
- Cuvée creation year
- 2013
- Style of the cuvée
- Chalky, mineral, and precise champagne, yet more textured and aromatically diverse than the estate's blancs de blancs thanks to the combined presence of white and black grape varieties. The overall style combines freshness, depth, floral complexity, and saline tension.
- Position within the range
- Experimental and confidential parcel cuvée, distinct from the estate's iconic blancs de blancs.
Histoire de la cuvée
Pascal Agrapart planted this plot with six grape varieties in Avize in 2003 to explore the shared expression of Champagne's historical grape varieties. Initial commercialization is documented in 2013, with a cuvée blending the 2010 and 2011 harvests and disgorged in May 2013.