🍾 Lanson Le Vintage 2014

Lanson Le Vintage 2014 is the 2014 release of Le Vintage by the house Lanson, a vintage white Champagne in the Brut style.

According to the house, it is a blend of 54 % Pinot Noir and 46 % Chardonnay from Grand and Premier Cru plots (including Avize, Oger, Cramant, Verzenay and Bouzy); it is aged for at least 10 years in the cellars, the dosage is 7 g/l, and there is no malolactic fermentation.

The house Lanson is based in Reims; it was founded in 1760.

The boundaries of the Champagne area were set by a law of 6 May 1919: parts of the Marne, Aube, Aisne, Haute-Marne and Seine-et-Marne departments. The designation’s specification allows seven grape varieties, dominated by Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier; grapes are picked as whole bunches, that is by hand, and the yield is limited to 10,400 kg per hectare.

According to the Comité Champagne, Champagne is served chilled to 8–10 °C, and bottles are kept in the dark at a steady 10–15 °C, without vibration. An opened bottle is best closed with a sparkling-wine stopper and kept cold.

It is sold under the protected designation of origin Champagne: the bubbles come only from a second fermentation in the bottle, and the wine is aged for at least 15 months before sale (36 for vintage). Brut on the label is an EU sugar term: less than 12 g of sugar per litre.

Why it matters to you. According to the house, it comes in: a 0.75 l bottle. The year on the label is the harvest year, so different years of the same line are different wines. The WHO reminds: there is no safe level of alcohol.