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- Colour Champagne_Sparkling
- Producer Charles Heidsieck
- Region Champagne
- Drinking 2023 - 2035
- Case size 6x75cl
- Available Now
2007 - Charles Heidsieck Blanc des Millénaires Champagne - 6x75cl
- Colour Champagne Sparkling
- Producer Charles Heidsieck
- Region Champagne
- Drinking 2023 - 2035
- Case size 6x75cl
- Available Now
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Goedhuis, July 2022
This exquisite Champagne has a vibrant fine beaded mousse and an expressive nose of lemon sherbet, honeysuckle and orange blossom with some richer fruit peeping through. The palate echoes these flavours and offers up lovely ripe lemon notes layered atop richer tropical fruit, gingerbread, and smoke entwined with chalky minerals. While this is a very elegant and fine, there is a dancing nervosity to the rounded creaminess as well as some considerable concentration. This is not a shy wine, just youthful, and expertly balances its impressive power without any excess weight. The finish is positively electric; chalky notes flow through to a refreshing salinity which makes this wine tingle on the palate. The seam of acidity only serves to amplify this and give lift and persistence. This is beautiful and will age well.
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Goedhuis, July 2022
This exquisite Champagne has a vibrant fine beaded mousse and an expressive nose of lemon sherbet, honeysuckle and orange blossom with some richer fruit peeping through. The palate echoes these flavours and offers up lovely ripe lemon notes layered atop richer tropical fruit, gingerbread, and smoke entwined with chalky minerals. While this is a very elegant and fine, there is a dancing nervosity to the rounded creaminess as well as some considerable concentration. This is not a shy wine, just youthful, and expertly balances its impressive power without any excess weight. The finish is positively electric; chalky notes flow through to a refreshing salinity which makes this wine tingle on the palate. The seam of acidity only serves to amplify this and give lift and persistence. This is beautiful and will age well.
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James Suckling, January 2022, Score: 96
Intense oyster-shell and candied-lemon aromas pull you into this very elegant champagne, which is so precise on the sleek and focused palate with a finish of crystalline purity and brightness. Still really youthful, thanks to the uplifting freshness! A Blanc de Blancs from 5 top Crus in the Côte des Blancs. Drink or hold.
Region
Champagne
Champagne, the world's greatest sparkling wine, needs little introduction - with imitations produced in virtually every country capable of growing grapes, including such unlikely candidates as India and China. The Champagne region, to the north of Paris, has the most northerly vineyards in France, with vines grown on slopes with a southerly exposure to maximise sunlight. The soil is chalky, providing an excellent balance of drainage and water retention. The key to the wine is in the cellar - the bubbles result from a second fermentation in the bottle and the rich toasty flavours in great Champagne come from extended bottle ageing on the yeasty lees. Until the eighteenth century, the wines produced in the Champagne area were light acidic white wines, with no hint of sparkle. However glass and closure technology developed at that time and it was not long before Dom Perignon, a Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Hautvilliers, started experimenting with blends and produced the first recognisable champagne. In a world accustomed to still wines, the advent of champagne was almost a flop. It was saved when it became fashionable at the French court as a result of Louis XV's mistress Madame de Pompadour commenting "Champagne is the only wine that lets a woman remain beautiful after she has drunk it." And the rest is history, with famous (or infamous) champagne lovers including Casanova, Dumas, Wagner, Winston Churchill, James Bond and Coco Chanel.