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ORIGIN
Aube, Champagne, France
APPELLATION
Champagne, RM
Côte de Bar sub region
VINEYARD
Lieu-dit Mées
Longitude :4.450639
Latitude : 48.0446424
Lieu-dit Beauregard
30+ year old vines
Limestone (Kimmeridgian) and clay subsoils
BLEND
75% Pinot Noir - Mées
25% Chardonnay - Beauregard
FARMING
Grapes are harvested and separated by plots
WINEMAKING
Method Champenoise
AGING
Five years on the lees
DOSAGE: 11 g/L
The Côtes des Bar marks the transition between the plains of Champagne and the rolling slopes of Burgundy. The soil in the Côte des Bar is closer to that of Chablis — Kimmeridgian marl topped by Portlandian limestone — than it is to the vineyards near Epernay and Reims, which is composed mostly by Cretaceous chalk. Unlike in Chablis, however, producers in the Aube specialize in Pinot Noir.