Champagne Vadin-Plateau - "Cuvee Renaissance" Premier Cru Extra Brut NV 750ML (12% ABV)
Soft, fresh, and pretty, super small production
50% Pinot Meunier 50% Pinot Noir blanc de noir bubbly from under the radar premier cru village Cumieres - 9th generation producer and certified organic farming.
BASE VINTAGE 2022 disgorged 01/24
The vineyards are farmed organically.
-estate grown, spontaneous fermentation in steel, spends two years on the lees
-malo occurs, very low dosage (2 g/ L), unfined & unfiltered
Everyone should be drinking way more Champagne and you should start with this one. I literally cannot stop buying or drinking Champagne right now. Oops...
A complex and dynamic blanc de noirs. Yellow fruits, spice, minerals. Very fine bead, dry finish.
Featured on Forbes.com:
"Vadin-Plateau, located in Cumieres in the Vallée de la Marne, has been around since 1785, yet few people have heard of them. Their non-vintage "Renaissance" cuvée is blanc de noir and offers rich fruit flavors of pear and strawberry with a light yeastiness. The acidity is not as high as with many Champagnes, meaning the finish is round and soft, making this an ideal Champagne for consumers that aren't looking for something exceptionally acidic. Nicely balanced, enjoy this over the next two to three years with veal filet or chicken with a mushroom sauce."
Champagne Vadin-Plateau is true grower champagne. It is a family enterprise located in the heart of the Marne Valley, in the premier cru village of Cumières (near Épernay). Joseph Plateau founded Champagne Vadin-Plateau (first called Maison Plateau) in 1785, making Vadin-Plateau one of the oldest champagne producers. A passion for wine and its cultivation has been transmitted from generation to generation; today, over two centuries later, it continues with Yann Vadin.Yann Vadin is the 9th generation to grow grapes on his family’s seven hectares of vineyards. centered around the terroirs of five neighboring villages: Ay, Damery, Champillon, Hautvillers, and the family’s hometown Cumières, where the winery is located. Yann always envisioned taking over the family domaine. After training in the lycée viticole in Avize, and obtaining work experience in Bordeaux, Burgundy, and Australia, he returned to the domaine in 2012.
Immediately, he began the conversion to organic viticulture, encouraged by a father who had stopped using herbicides twenty years prior, and who also had the good sense to allow his son free reign in the winemaking process from his first harvest. Yann crafts wines that are both typical of Champagne and highly personal. His first cuvée, aptly named Renaissance, was a 100% Pinot Meunier, the emblematic grape of Cumières. The following year, Yann asked his father, grandfather, and himself to each select their favorite terroir at the domaine. Fortunately, they chose three different parcels, and from these favorite spots they selected three different grape varieties, each planted with a different grape variety.