Champagne 1er Jour de Vendanges

Champagne Ruppert-Leroy

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Type

Sparkling Wine

Appellation

Champagne

Variety

Pinot Noir

‘1er Jour de Vendanges" means ‘1st day of harvest’. This micro-cuvée is produced from Pinot Noir picked on the first day of harvest each year. The still wine is aged in a single clay dolia and produces less than 1,000 bottles per vintage. A dolia is a large, wide earthenware vessel that has been used for winemaking since ancient times. Dolias allow for microoxygenation during ageing, though do not impart any external flavors onto the wine.

Viticulture

Vineyard name

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Soil type

Vinification

Harvest typeHand Harvested

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More about
the producer

Champagne Ruppert-Leroy

Founded in 1980s

4 hectares

Bénédicte Leroy’s parents moved to Essoyes in 1975 and started a small farm on a clearing, located just above the town where they previously raised sheep. In the 1980s, it was no longer economically viable, and they learned that they could plant grapes on the land that they'd been renting for the sheep to graze on. Little by little, they planted four hectares in Essoyes and Noé-les-Mallets, not including the garden and small pasture they kept for their own animals. All of the grapes were sold to the local cooperative.

In 2009, when her father was about to retire, Bénédicte took over the domaine along with her husband Manu Leroy, under the condition that they could farm organically and make their own wines. Using his background in ecological construction, Manu built a straw...