Type

Sparkling Wine

Appellation

Champagne

Variety

70% Chardonnay
30% Pinot Noir

An ephemeral cuvée, made with grapes from the domaines own plots and those kindly donated by our organic winegrower friends on the Cote des Bar following a devastating spring frost.

Viticulture

Soil type

The dominant terroir is clay limestone, with a various proportion of red clay, gray clay and some white limestone

Vine ageEarly 1980s

Vineyard size3.55 hectares

PruningCordon de Royat, Guyot

ExpositionSouth / Southwest

Vinification

Vinification with natural yeast from their own grapes, without any fining or filtering. The cold settling occurs with the winter frosts. Disgorged à la volée brut without any added SO2 or liqueur.

ElevageAlcoholic fermentation and élevage on fine lees in 225L barrels and 500L demi-muids for 9 motnhs. Ageed on the lees in bottles for 18-20 months.

Harvest typeHand Harvested

Fining/FilteringUnfined / Unfiltered

Additional info

Total production average4,000 bottles

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...