This is a new wine from Champagne Veuve Clicquot, called Extra Brut Extra Old. With a dosage of 3 g/l this is the first release of an extra brut from this house (with the exception of some of the very limited Cave Privée releases). It contains six different vintages of reserve wines (1988-2010), aged for 3 years on the lees. Chief winemaker Dominique Demarville first decided to make this wine back in 2011, when he began working just with reserve wines as an experiment. It has a lower pressure than most Champagnes (4.5 bars versus 6 bars) which makes the fizz less assertive. The blend is 47% Pinot Noir and then equal parts Pinot Meunier and Chardonnay. RRP is £69 and initial stockists will be Jeroboams, Selfridges and Harrods in the UK.
Champagne Veuve Clicquot Extra Brut Extra Old NV France
Disgorged 06/16. There’s lovely precision to this wine. It’s bright and citrussy, but there’s also some pear and peach richness, a touch of red cherry, a hint of cream and subtle toast. All blends together with lovely finesse. It’s tight and fruit focused, but it also has some savoury maturity in the background. I love the contrasts here, with high acidity and linearity, complemented by the notes of maturity. Really gastronomic and structural, this is quite serious and austere and is quite a contrast to the richness regular Veuve NV, although the family resemblance is there from the reserve wines, which feature quite prominently in the NV. 93/100
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from jamie goode’s wine blog http://www.wineanorak.com:/wineblog/champagne/champagne-veuve-clicquot-extra-brut-extra-old
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