Champagne

Organic

Champagne Mixolydien Grand Cru

Champagne Stéphane Regnault

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Type

Sparkling Wine

Appellation

Champagne

Variety

100% Chardonnay

Reminiscent of the Mixolydien mode, this cuvée is complex, balanced, and marked by a rare silkiness. The first release of Mixolydien is a single vintage (2014), disgorged in 2019. Future bottlings will be from the perpetual solera of the Moulin vineyard starting in 2014. The numbering of his cuvée names represents the vintage blend (example N° 29 = vintages 14 + 15 blend).

Viticulture

Vineyard name

Moulin Grand Cru

Soil type

Thin topsoil supported by grass plantings; transitional horizon rich in chalk and fairly deep; subsoil of soft, fractured chalk.

Vine age1970s

ExpositionEast

Vinification

Native yeast fermentation. 65% base vintage in barrel, 35% reserve wine (starting 2014). Malolactic fermentation is neither encouraged or blocked - generally occurs in the barrels, but not in the tanks.

ElevageAging on the lees: 4 years, 10 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...