{"title":"Champagne Egly-Ouriet","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"egly-ouriet-1er-cru-les-vignes-de-bisseuil-base-2019-disgorged-july-2024","title":"Egly-Ouriet 1er Cru Les Vignes De Bisseuil NV","description":"\u003ch6\u003eNotes from the Importer\u003c\/h6\u003eDebuting in 2022, this is the third release of Egly’s sole Chardonnay-dominant cuvée, and it’s the second release to include three vintages. The wine is drawn from a plot on the south-facing slopes of Bisseuil, a village just east of the famous communes of Aÿ and Mareuil-sur-Aÿ. While these two latter villages are renowned for Pinot Noir, Bisseuil is more known for Chardonnay; it’s the only village in the area with more Chardonnay than Pinot Noir. The blend here is 70% Chardonnay with 15% Pinot Noir and 15% Meunier. The Egly Bisseuil vines cover 1.5 hectares and span two lieux-dits. The Egly family have now farmed them for more than seven years - Francis and Annick Egly purchased these vines in anticipation of their children Clémence and Charles joining the domaine. The average vine age is 40 years. Les Vignes de Bisseuil was vinified in barrel and spent four years in the cellar before disgorgement with 2 g\/L dosage.As always, this makes for a fascinating contrast to the rest of the range - the Egly approach applied to Chardonnay. Expect waves of orchard fruit, white flowers, fresh butter and almond oil notes. Yes, there is richness and texture, but the wine is also bright and full of energy with a powdery, pithy close. It has all the vinosity, complexity and tension for which this great grower is renowned.Base 2019, Disgorged July 2024","brand":"Champagne Egly-Ouriet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44969348137139,"sku":"28702","price":250.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/2513\/1699\/files\/28702.jpg?v=1758508518"},{"product_id":"egly-ouriet-grand-cru-brut-nv-base-2019-disgorged-july-2024","title":"Egly-Ouriet Grand Cru Brut NV","description":"\u003ch6\u003eNotes from the Importer\u003c\/h6\u003eThis is simply a stunning release of this wine. As always, it’s 70% Pinot Noir and 30% Chardonnay exclusively from low-yielding Grand Cru vines, predominantly located in Ambonnay, but also Bouzy and Verzenay. The old cliché - Egly starts harvesting when everyone else has finished - still holds true, and it’s obvious from the first sip that this wine is made from perfectly ripe fruit. The musts fermented with native yeasts, and the first period of maturation (before going to bottle) lasted almost one year, with the wine remaining on its fine lees the whole time. Over 50% of the wine fermented and matured in barrel. It's a wine of great finesse, loaded with Pinot character-juicy red fruits and all kinds of spice-and a long, tonic close that's chalky and saline. It's a terrific food wine and will gain more and more depth over the next three to 12 months. It's as good a release of this cuvée as we've tasted, so grab what you can! As we've said many times, if Egly made only this wine, he would still be one of the region's superstars; it puts to shame many a prestige cuvée at considerably higher prices.70% Pinot Noir, 30% Chardonnay. 50% 2020, 30% 2019, 20% 2018. Disgorged July 2025","brand":"Champagne Egly-Ouriet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44969348169907,"sku":"30293","price":320.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/2513\/1699\/files\/30293.jpg?v=1766537461"},{"product_id":"champagne-egly-ouriet-les-premices-brut-nv-disgorged-july-2025","title":"Egly-Ouriet Les Prémices Brut NV","description":"\u003ch6\u003eNotes from the Importer\u003c\/h6\u003eLes Prémices comes from 3.5 hectares of vines in Trigny, northwest of Reims. If we use some great growers to geolocate, Trigny is situated just to the west of Saint-Thierry and Merfy (where Alexandre Chartogne is based) and east of Montigny-sur-Vesle (where Aurélien Suenen grows his excellent La Grande Vigne cuvée). The Egly vines span seven historic lieux-dits in the commune, and like the Domaine's Vrigny vines, these plots come from Annick Egly's side of the family. The return of Francis and Annick's two children, Charles and Clémence, to the Domaine has enabled the family to start producing their own wines from these plots. This is now the seventh release of this wine (counting all disgorgements) over four years, so the Eglys have had time to learn about this terroir. As their experience-and the percentage of reserve wine-has grown, so has the quality of the wine. Reflecting what is planted in the vineyards, Les Prémices is an equal blend of Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Meunier. On average, the vines are 40 years old and rooted in clay and sandstone over a chalk bedrock-a soil typical of the Massif de Saint-Thierry area. As always, the classic Egly manifesto applies here-old vines, low yields, hand-harvesting of fully ripe fruit, no inoculation, long lees aging, no fining or filtration, low dosage and meticulous attention to detail. One difference here is that the wine fermented and aged exclusively in tank. The dosage for this release was less than 2 g\/L.","brand":"Champagne Egly-Ouriet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45173178499251,"sku":"30291","price":200.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/2513\/1699\/files\/30291.jpg?v=1771308537"},{"product_id":"champagne-egly-ouriet-grand-cru-v-p-extra-brut-nv-disgorged-july-2025","title":"Egly-Ouriet Grand Cru V.P. Extra Brut NV","description":"\u003ch6\u003eNotes from the Importer\u003c\/h6\u003eV.P. stands for Vieillissement Prolongé (prolonged aging), as this wine spends an extended period on lees-in the case of this release, 84 months. Like the Grand Cru Brut, this is a blend of 70% Pinot Noir and 30% Chardonnay, and the fruit comes from Ambonnay, Bouzy and Verzenay-all Grand Cru terroirs. Vinification and the initial maturation were in oak casks, and dosage for both wines was only 1 g\/L. Those who have tasted this cuvée in the past know the power of the fruit and extended lees aging grant so much harmony, length, complexity and texture. That's precisely what you get: a vinous, powerful, super-pure Champagne. Intense and statuesque, yet with so much class. Already impressive, it's still very young and deserves to be kept for a few more years before being opened.50% 2017, 30% 2016, 20% 2015. Disgorged July 2025","brand":"Champagne Egly-Ouriet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45173178532019,"sku":"30294","price":425.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/2513\/1699\/files\/30294.jpg?v=1765925771"},{"product_id":"champagne-egly-ouriet-grand-cru-brut-rose-nv-disgorged-july-2025","title":"Egly-Ouriet Grand Cru Brut Rosé NV","description":"70% Pinot Noir, 30% Chardonnay - 50% 2019, 30% 2018, 20% 2017, Disgorged July 2024\u003cbr\u003eThis is arguably Champagne's greatest rosé. Why is it so good? Well, the first reason is that the fruit comes from 100% Grand Cru Estate vines grown by one of the region's most meticulous vignerons. Then there is the 5% of Egly's Coteaux Champenois Rouge-without doubt, the finest red wine of Champagne. This red Pinot gives the wine its colour and a fair amount of vinous character. The blend is 70% Pinot Noir and 30% Chardonnay, with 50% from the 2019 vintage and the reserve wines split between 2018 and 2017. The dosage is a negligible 1 g\/L. Interestingly, this is always Egly's most delicate wine. It's unbelievably fine, perfumed and red-fruited; something truly special. It's also now bottled in dark glass to protect it from light strike.","brand":"Champagne Egly-Ouriet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45173178564787,"sku":"30295","price":425.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/2513\/1699\/files\/30295.jpg?v=1765942528"},{"product_id":"champagne-egly-ouriet-blanc-de-noirs-grand-cru-vieilles-vignes-les-crayeres-nv-disgorged-july-2025","title":"Egly-Ouriet Blanc De Noirs Grand Cru Vieilles Vignes Les Crayères NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eVintages: 2018 (50%), 2017 (50%). 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