Julien Chopin Carte Noir Brut Nature Meunier

Julien Chopin Carte Noir Brut Nature Meunier from Champagne, France. An insane and hip champagne, super tight and dry, no added sugars with pronounced notes of grapefruit, salt and wild apricot. Julien Chopin Carte Noir Brut Nature Meunier.

Julien Chopin is based in Monthelon; a village of about 600 inhabitants in the Coteaux Sud d’Epernay wine region. Julien Chopin has 7 hectares of land and has been making a fine range of champagne and ratafia since 1947. It works with as little dosage as possible (low sugar content) to let the grapes do the work, making highly original and creative wines.

Julien Chopin is a Négociant-Manipulant winemaker, meaning some of the grapes are grown in-house and some are bought. The entire process of making champagne is done in-house; working in the vineyard, harvesting and pressing the grapes, letting the wine ferment all the way through to bottling, maturing in the cellars and selling.

Pinot Meunier, a blue grape of reasonable to good quality and is a mutation of the very well-known Burgundian grape pinot noir. The name refers to flour (and miller) because the leaves of the grape seem to be dusted with a layer of flour due to the hairiness. Is very suitable for making sparkling wines and thrives in relatively cool wine-growing climates. Is the most planted grape in Champagne and makes an indispensable contribution to most Champagne blends. In France it is also called farineux noir or noirin enfariné. In Germany the grape is known as müllerrebe or schwarzriesling and produces light and soft red wines with a mild fruitiness in southern Germany (Württemberg and Baden). The grape is also planted in Austria (blaue postitsch-traube) and in the former Yugoslavia.