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Caillez Lemaire Reflets Extra Brut Champagne

  • Caillez Lemaire Reflets Extra Brut Champagne

Caillez Lemaire Reflets Extra Brut Champagne

  • Brand: Caillez Lemaire
  • Availability: In Stock
  • Quantity Available: 8
  • SKU #: 12211
  • Bottle Size: 750 ml
  • $64.99


Caillez Lemaire Reflets Extra Brut Champagne

  • Brand: Caillez Lemaire
  • Availability: In Stock
  • Quantity Available: 8
  • SKU #: 12211
  • Bottle Size: 750 ml
  • $64.99


Caillez Lemaire Reflets Extra Brut Champagne

This MV is made up of 45% Pinot Meunier 35% Pinot Noir 20% Chardonnay, with 70% from the excellent 2018 vintage and the remaining 25% from 2017. After a primary fermentation in stainless steel without malolactic conversion, this was aged on its lees for 60 months before being disgorged with a dosage of 5 grams per liter. The Reflets pours quite pretty rose gold in the glass. The nose shows a light white raspberry with tree fruits, clotted cream and just-there brioche notes. The palate has a good acidity with forward flavors of apple galette, cream, sugar plums, and a clay minerality.  D&M Tasting Notes

The domaine was formed in 1942 when Raymond Caillez and Andrée Lemaire married and decided as a young couple to go their own way and make Champagne from their two hectare of combined plots. This was a departure from what their families had been engaged in since the 18th century as grape growers to the large houses. From this start as a quite small domaine, they worked together for decades until they handed over the operation to their son Henri in 1976. Henri’s wife Anne brought with her some plots in the neighboring village of Cumières, and together they gradually enlarged and expanded the family’s work. In 2005 they handed off day to day responsibility to their daughter Virginie and her husband Vincent Vanpoperingh. Virginie and Vincent have worked for more than a decade to convert their plots over to organics. This they have successfully completed in time for the 2020 harvest. Michael Kennel, D&M

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