Champagne Egly-Ouriet Grand Cru V.P NV auramadre with the tannins starting out

with the tannins starting out slightly pronounced before gradually softening nicely into a long

steely with great minerality

the winemaking is designed to showcase the "waxy intensity" of the fruit rather than the artifact of the winery

A proportion is destemmed

Champagne Egly-Ouriet Grand Cru V.P NV auramadre with the tannins starting outThe V. P. stands for Vieillissement Prolong; (prolonged aging), as the wine spends so long on lees; in this case 84 months. It's a blend of 70% Pinot Noir and 30% Chardonnay, and like the entry Grand Cru Brut, the fruit also comes from Ambonnay, Bouzy and Verzenay & all great Grand Cru terroirs. Vinification and ; levage was in oak casks. The dosage is a tiny two grams per litre, so seriously Extra Brut. The power of the fruit plus the extended lees