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Champagne P. Lancelot-Royer Blanc de Blancs Millésimé Brut Grand Cru 2013 Wine - Last Bottle

Champagne P. Lancelot-Royer Blanc de Blancs Millésimé Brut Grand Cru 2013

Exceptional Hand-Crafted, Limited Production Champagne from the most extraordinary 2013 vintage!

$69
$125

Retail

45
Flavor Profile: Wildflowers, citrus, green apples
Time on Lees: 8 years
Dosage: 9 g/L

Why We Love It...

We love small, artisan producers… and Michel Chauvet is just the man for the job at Lancelot Royer – winemaker, farmer, press cranker, riddling master, bottle capper, disgorgement doctor – he simply does it all by hand, making some of the most limited production Champagne you can find. While Chauvet certainly makes Grower Champagne, his methods are so much more than checking boxes on a list. Quality is his raison d'être – and guides his every choice from vine to bottle. If you seek truly authentic Grower Champagne, with clear soul and unwavering effort, Lancelot-Royer is the obvious choice. This is a crazy-small production, but it stands as one of our absolute favorite Blanc de Blancs at any price point!

Michel is decidedly old-school, choosing to craft a product as it would have been made over 100 years ago, before the invention of many instruments and equipment used prevalently today in the wine industry. We love that Michel Chauvet has pushed the limits of quality in terms of what one man, with tireless effort and decades of experience, can achieve with a singular Champagne. This is all Grand Cru chardonnay, aged for eight years on the lees, and… in the unyielding Chauvet way – harvested, pressed, capped, riddled, and disgorged all by hand. (You should see his hands… they are an impressive sight)!

The wine just has everything you could want in a quintessential Blanc de Blancs – delicately toasted flavors of fresh-baked bread and grass-fed cow’s butter, with enticing aromas of alpine wildflowers, bright, lemon-y citrus notes, raw almond slivers, and zippy hints of green apples and gunflint. The nine g/liter dosage helps to round off any sharp edges (the prolonged time on the lees aids in that effort as well,) making for a creamy and dreamy finish that just goes on forever. Over 20% off is a true coup d'etat for a rare wine like this, and while we don’t have much, it is certainly something every Champagne lover should seek out – especially as we are down to under FIVE cases!

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Technical Details

Country: France
Region: Champagne
Appellation: Côte des Blancs
Varietal: Chardonnay
Winemaker: Michel Chauvet
Alcohol: 13%
Pair it with: Oysters. Squeeze of lemon, dash of hot sauce, shoot!

About the Producer

Domaine Lancelot-Royer crafts “grower” Champagne, a récoltant-manipulant house that grows its own grapes and makes its own wine all on site. This qualitative difference is crucial for those seeking the ultimate in Champagne flavor and character. All of Michel Chauvet’s vineyards in Cramant are rated 100% Grand Cru and are all planted to Chardonnay, as is tradition in the Côte de Blancs.
As Lancelot-Royer is one of the smaller Champagne houses, Chauvet is able to see to every winemaking step himself, performing each task by hand. This dedication to hand-crafted Champagne is evident in the estate’s cellars, a rough chalk cave that was carved out of the rock by hand, chisel strokes traceable on the cool walls. From harvesting to riddling to degorging to bottling, physical labor, not technology, is the rule at Lancelot-Royer.

Champagne P. Lancelot-Royer Blanc de Blancs Millésimé Brut Grand Cru 2013

$69
$125

Retail

45

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