Cedric Bouchard
About Cedric Bouchard
From a family of growers, Cédric started his professional life as a merchant in Paris before feeling the pull of his homeland. Committed to championing lesser-known parts of the region, there is no one making wines like this in Champagne, nor of similar quality in the Côte des Bar. His first vintage was in 2000 and this rosé is arguably his most in-demand wine with a mere 200 bottles only made from three rows of Pinot Noir!
Having sadly suffered a stroke in 2014 but fully recovering, this inimitable grower has become more private and diligent with his winemaking, shunning the limelight but letting his wines build one of the most ardent followings in the whole of fine wine. He is now without question one of the most driven pursuers of total perfection in the world.
“Working with the lowest yields in Champagne and fashioning some of the region’s greatest wines from vineyards that no one had ever heard of, he has always been a perfectionist in every sense of the word”
William Kelley (Wine Advocate)
Straddling the line between out-and-out maverick and the region’s greatest champion, Bouchard challenges almost all preconceived notions of how to make Champagne and what this style of wine truly is at its core.
"And if Champagne remains France’s highest-yielding appellation d’origine controlée, Bouchard’s yields of between 20 and 30 hectoliters per hectare would be considered low even by the best domaine’s of Burgundy’s Côte de Nuits. He even calls Champagne’s very identity—its bubbles—into question, by bottling at just over four bars of pressure rather than the conventional six"
William Kelley (Wine Advocate)
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Champagne | 2 | 92 (VN) | د.إ5,165.00 | |||||
Vinous (92)The NV (2018) Blanc de Noirs Val Vilaine is bright, fresh and wonderfully nuanced. Orchard fruit, citrus and floral notes give the Val Vilaine so much energy. Cédric Bouchard coaxes so much nuance from these 40 year-old vines. The Val Vilaine is always the youngest wine in the range - the current release is the 2018, which spent just 15 months on its lees - but it will give readers who aren't familiar with these wines a very good idea of the house style. Zero dosage. Disgorged: April 2020. |
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