26/02/2024
🍾 Attention all restaurateurs who list exceptional Champagne! 🍾
In 2023, Jerome Dehours of released this wine, "Maisoncelle", for the first time after more than ten-years in the making.
Maisoncelle is the name of the North-East facing, mid-slope lieu dit in Mareuil-le-Port from where the Pinot Noir for this wine comes from. It was decided to create a wine that was entirely from a perpetual reserve, all vinified in barrel, which was born in 2013.
Vintages 2014, 2015, 2016 & 2017 were added to the reserve, gaining complexity with the addition of each new vintage and the maturation of those that preceded it.
📝 Mise en cave in June 2019, disgorged in May 2022. Extra Brut, 3g RS, 12.5% ABV 📝
It's amazing to experience the breadth and depth of Jerome's Champagnes. Some, like Terre de Meunier and Terriscope are fresh, floral, young and juicy; while Maisoncelle sits at the other end of the style spectrum. It's like drinking an old wine wrapped around a young wine. What I mean is that it's incredibly savoury upfront, owing to the old vintages, the extended ageing and the use of oak. It's rich like Madeira and dry like Sherry, with dried yellow flowers and nectarines combining nicely with butterscotch, pears, caramel and salt. With time, the fruit becomes fresher, younger and juicier, perhaps with some dried herbs and grapefruit peel in the background.
🫧 The bubbles are absolutely tiny and fast moving 🫧
The wine is not oxidised, has no tannins, and has an incredible acid profile. Perhaps it's ideally suited for aperó, alongside jambón, green olives and the like, or very mature cheeses. There is certainly a lot of scope to pair this wine.
Sommeliers: What would you pair with it?
Maisoncelle is made in very small quantities, and the allocation for New Zealand was 24 bottles. If you would like even just one for your restaurant's wine list, for that table or occasion that calls for such a Champagne, do reach out as we can accommodate this.
