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Larmandier-Bernier ranks among the Côte des Blancs's most important producers, especially when considering their historical context. Soon after taking over their family's estate, Pierre and his wife, Sophie Larmandier, began working the soils of their vineyards and abandoning the use of herbicides, transitioning to organic and biodynamic farming. Located in Vertus, the Larmandier family now farms 20 hectares organically, with vines in Vertus, Cramant, Avize, Oger and Chouilly. They harvest late, at full ripeness, and have been fermenting with native yeasts since 1999.

Larmandier's 'Terre de Vertus' cuvée is a non-dosage vintage bottling produced from two top vineyards in the village of Vertus: Les Barillers and Les Faucherets, which are located in the heart of the Vertus vignoble, mid-slope on the rolling hills of the village. The wine undergoes its alcoholic and malolactic fermentations in old oak casks (mostly Stockinger), and is generally aged a minimum of five years in the cellar prior to disgorgement and an additional year before release. It is universally considered one of the most profound non-dosage bottlings produced in all of Champagne and ages brilliantly.

2018 Larmandier Bernier Champagne Premier Cru Blanc de Blancs Brut Nature Terre de Vertus
VM96
"The 2018 Brut Nature Blanc de Blancs Terre de Vertus 1er Cru is potent and explosive in the glass. Dried apricot, chamomile, crushed flowers, spice, menthol and crushed autumn leaves fill out the layers. This is an especially ample, broad-shouldered Champagne, a wine endowed with tons of palate presence and sheer class. The Terre de Vertus is a blend of fruit from the Barillers and Faucherets lieux-dits. It's impressively deep for a vintage in which so many Champagnes are on the lighter side. Bottled with no dosage."
-Antonio Galloni

2014 Larmandier Bernier Champagne Premier Cru Blanc de Blancs Brut Nature Terre de Vertus
WA94+
"Disgorged in January 2020, the 2014 Brut Nature Blanc de Blancs Premier Cru Terre de Vertus is a fine follow-up to the excellent 2013 and 2012 renditions. Unwinding in the glass with scents of white flowers, citrus oil, crisp orchard fruit, fresh pastry and almonds, it's full-bodied, layered and vinous, with more richness and mid-palate amplitude than the tauter 2013, underpinned by racy acids and chalky structuring extract."
-William Kelley

"In a region that still produces too many meager, brittle wines, Larmandier-Bernier reminds us of the plenitude and texture that great Champagne can offer."
-William Kelley

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