Champagne Dorien Grand Cru

Champagne Stéphane Regnault

DORIEN 62
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