NV Adrien Renoir "Le Terroir" Extra Brut, Champagne, France
There are 12 units left in stock.
ABOUT THIS WINE
Verzy Grand Cru with 50% Chardonnay, 50% Pinot Noir. Base vintage + 20% vin de réserve (just the year before) aged in foudre. 24 months sur lies.
ABOUT THIS PRODUCER
After working closely with his father for the past few years, Adrien Renoir took over his family’s five-hectare domaine in Verzy (Champagne Vincent Renoir) and began bottling exclusively under his name in 2019. Working exclusively with estate fruit, he abandoned herbicides in 2015 and attained organic certification in 2020. Verzy is made up of a series of three hills and valleys thus allowing for a variety of vineyard expositions. The chalk is a little finer on the eastern side, near Villers-Marmery, where Renoir’s Les Montants Chardonnay vineyard is planted. Here you have 30/40cm of topsoil and then direct chalk. But on the Verzenay side, the soil is harder with 1 to 2 meters of black clay. Further down the slope is Les Epinettes, Renoir’s northwest-facing parcel of old vine pinot noir. This site’s slow ripening combined with poor, chalky soils creates a structured wine with taut acidity.
Details:
| Grape(s) | Chardonnay, Pinot Noir |
| Farming | Organic |