NEW RELEASES from Champagne Marie-Courtin with 19's and RARE Prestance Cuvee

Special Pricing for some bottles with an automatic discount applied with the wine added to your cart.  Prices will increase after this offer so take advantage of these new releases in this allocation.

Champagne Marie-Courtin, Polisot, Aube

If you all have had the opportunity to drink Dominique Moreau's Champagnes of Marie-Courtin then you know just how great these wines are! Despite the challenges of each vintage, Dominique's wines seem to exceed the expectation of the vintage each year. Dominique works almost entirely with Pinot Noir except for tiny amounts of Chardonnay, Pinot Blanc, and Arbane. All vineyard work is biodynamic.

What we love is the wines are profound yet elegant with pure class and individual identities. Just recently in Burgundy to kick off our meal we ordered a bottle and despite sipping the wine, the bottle vanished quickly and we ordered another Marie Courtin bottle from another vintage and style. That bottle didn't stand a chance either. This was a great reminder to buy more of this producer and source as much as we can.

Today, this offer is a great dive into her wines from a mix of two great vintages for her, 2019 and 2022.

Some insight into Champagne Marie Courtin...
Started in 2005, Dominique began to make and craft Champagnes of a single-vineyard, single-variety, single-vintage, zero-dosage Champagnes from biodynamically farmed vines under meticulous care. This specific vision (same as Cedric Bouchard, a neighbor in the village next to hers) requires an amazing focus on the health of the vineyard and of the vines. Located in the small village of Polisot in the Cote des Bars (Aube), Dominique's vineyards receive a slightly warmer climate that benefits her Pinot Noir vines into producing bold flavored fruit. Dominique works a hillside vineyard of 40-45 year old, massale-selection Pinot Noir. The soils are based on Kimmeridgian limestone that helps provide a unique minerality and aids in retaining freshness in the wines. This of course Dominique has in spades as in all of her wines this is a unifier. The combination of low yields, clay-limestone soils with bands of Kimmeridgian, and an east/southeast exposure gives the wines both power and cut, with an intense brininess and minerality at their core. This is why we love these wines.

Cuvees:
All wines are fermented with native yeasts cultured from their respective plot in their vineyard. The cultured native yeasts are used for both the primary and secondary fermentations. All wines receive NO DOSAGE upon disgorgement.

Résonance - 100% Pinot from vines at top of the slope. Fermented in stainless steel and aged sur lattes for 24 months.

Éfflorescence - 100% Pinot from vines at the bottom of the hill, which she says “has greater power and potential”. Fermented in stainless steel and aged sur lattes for 24 months.

Concordance - 100% Pinot from vines mid-slope. Fermented in used barrels and aged sur lattes for 36 months.

Presence - Chardonnay (70%) and Pinot Blanc (30%) blend.  The Pinot Blanc is planted in kimmerdgian-centric soils while the Chardonnay is planted in portlandian soils in the Aube, aged 24 months sur lattes.  Only about 190 cases made each vintage. 

Prestance - 100% Pinot from oldest vines on best plot of her vineyard fermented and raised in clay and sandstone amphora, aged sur lattes for 36 months.  RARE (No US listings)

No wine reviews thus far... but these regularly scored well above 90s.

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