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Champagne Néret-Vély

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Type

Sparkling Wine

Appellation

Champagne

Variety

85% Pinot Meunier
15% Pinot Noir

The lower dosage of 5 grams of sugar was the original inspiration for this cuvée’s name, but has since been reduced to 3 grams. Featuring horse-plowed fields!

Viticulture

Soil type

Clay-limestone with marls.

Vinification

Fermentation with indigenous yeasts; full malolactic conversion.

ElevageÉlevage in stainless steel; Pinot Noir is aged for 6 months in oak barrels. Aging on slats for 18 months before release.

Harvest typeHand Harvested

Fining/FilteringPlate filtration.

Additional info

Total production average4,410 bottles

More about
the producer

Champagne Néret-Vély

Founded in 1945

7 hectares

Founded in 1945, the Néret-Vély domaine has seen constant change but stayed true to their local roots in their lesser-known corner of Champagne: Festigny, Châtillon-sur-Marne, Nesle-le-Repons and Comblizy. Carole Néret is the third generation vigneronne to steward the vines and continues to envision new paths forward.

Born to a dairy farmer father and an accountant mother who inherited a micro-plot of 20 ares in Festigny, Carole was shaped by the pivotal decisions taken by the family after withdrawing from the local cooperative to become independent producers in the mid 1980s. All was self-financed. Against the advice of banks to sell their vineyards at the start, the family remained steadfast in their vision, purchasing dense, qualitative woodlands and undertaking the lab...