Egérie de Pannier Champagne Vintage £79.50

Ample and generous, with a lovely aromatic complexity, the cuvée Egérie keeps its promises and reveals in the mouth highly delicate aromas of brioche, pastry, ripe fruit and candied citrus fruit. A wine of emotion and balance to be shared at unique moments. It will also be the ideal partner for your refined dishes: salt-crusted farm poultry, morel fleurette or even poached oysters. Presented in a premium gift box.

Product Information

Category: Sparkling
Country: France
Region: Champagne
Colour: White
Type: vintage
Alcohol Content: 12.00
Size: 75cl
Closure Type: Champagne Cork
Alcohol Units: 9.00
Style: Extra Dry
Vintage: 2012
Grape: Chardonnay, Pinots Noir, Pinot Meunier

Pannier

In 1899, Louis-Eugčne Pannier began the story of Champagne Pannier at Dizy, just outside Epernay. With time and excellent workmanship, the brand earned its reputation and began a new chapter of its history full of promise, moving to Château-Thierry in the Marne Valley vineyards. On these lands, which have inspired many painters, writers and poets, remarkable and ancient stone quarries dating from the 12th century serve as the cellars of Champagne Pannier. A skilful stonecutter carved an archer into the wall of one of these deep galleries. The House quite naturally chose this symbol of balance, mastery and dexterity as the emblem of its know how and adopted the archer’s motto: "Aim for Perfection".As the secret behind the creation of a great champagne lies in the blending, the House has been entrusting this delicate and decisive task to its talented Cellar Master, Philippe Dupuis, for over 25 years now. He has developed an elegant range of champagnes with a style that is clearly asserted by the predominant presence of black grapes (Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier) balanced with a strong portion of Chardonnay.

Champagne

“Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.” – Oscar Wilde, "Champagne! In victory one deserves it, in defeat one needs it.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
Champagne, synonymous with luxury, royalty and celebration, is the world's premier region and appellation for sparkling wine. Despite the colloquial use of the term to mean any sparkling wine, 'Champagne' is a protected term referring only to a wine which is made in the Champagne region, using the méthode champenoise, and with grapes grown in the region, the three most important of which are Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier.
Champagne has been a wine producing region dating back to the Middle Ages, yet the bubbles which Champagne is so famous for today only appeared in the wines over the last few centuries. Prior to this time, Champagne was a still wine. Dom Perignon, the Benedictine monk from the Abbey of Hautvillers, famously quoted as saying "come quickly, I am tasting the stars", is often credited with the 'discovery' of champagne's bubbles. Unfortunately, the story is a myth. Not that the French would be willing to readily admit it, but Champagne actually has the British, one of their biggest markets, to thank for the bubbles. A few 'happy' accidents, including extra heat from the wine's sea journey from France to England, and the British adding sugar into the wines from the stores of their Carribean colonies, led to the secondary fermentation in bottle, and the wine's first bubbles in the 17th century. Champagne then fully embraced the sparkling rendition of its wine in the 19th century.

Delivery

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Returns

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Click and Collect

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