Champagne

Organic

Champagne Dorien Grand Cru

Champagne Stéphane Regnault

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Type

Sparkling Wine

Appellation

Champagne

Variety

Chardonnay

The Dorien cuvée is the most reticent and complex of Stéphane's cuvées. The wine needs time in the bottle in order to express its full potential as an epic, rich, and structured wine. The first release of Dorien is a single vintage (2014) and was disgorged in 2020. Future bottlings will be from the perpetual solera of the Hautes-Mottes vineyard, starting in 2014. The numbering of his cuvée names represents the vintage blend (example N° 29 = vintages 14 + 15 blend).

Viticulture

Vineyard name

Hautes-Mottes

Soil type

The Hautes-Mottes terroir lies on the far side of the railway in the plain south of Le Mesnil. 'Hautes-Mottes' means 'high mound' and refers to the unusual veins of chalk that extend into the plain.

Vine age½ planted 1950s, ½ planted 1980s

Vinification

Native yeast fermentation. 65% base vintage in barrel, 35% reserve wine (starting 2014). Complete malolactic fermentation. Dosage: extra brut

ElevageAging on lees: 3 years, 8 months

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Champagne Stéphane Regnault

Founded in 2007

4 hectares

Stéphane Regnault released his first single-vineyard cuvée from his family’s prime terroir in Oger and Le Mesnil in 2018. These bottles are the result of over a decade of reflection, experience, and trials. In 2007, after working briefly as a sommelier in London and an aerospace engineer in Paris, Stéphane returned to the Côte des Blancs to take over the family domaine. Inspired and influenced by the conversations he had with other young producers, Stéphane decided to stop using herbicides in the vineyards, and gradually converted to organic farming.

The domaine comprises four hectares of Chardonnay, divided equally between the legendary chalk terroirs of the Grand Cru villages Oger and Le Mesnil. The majority of the vines are between 40 and 60 years old. Stéphane has sele...