CHAMPAGNE ROSES DE JEANNE

Beware, this text could permanently damage your attitude to industrially produced champagnes from the big names such as Pommery, Veuve Cliquot, Moet Chandon and all these other soulless companies!

Have you ever wondered how these big companies produce their wines, how ripe their grapes can become with a yield of 15,500 kilograms per hectare, while quality-conscious winegrowers harvest barely more than 6,000 kilograms for their wines from the same area? How do these wineries have to maltreat their grapes and wines in the catacombs to make a halfway drinkable fizzy drink, which I can only recommend for award ceremonies, and then only if protective goggles are worn? Unimaginable!

Rescue is at hand in the form of vintners' champagnes, which are fortunately attracting more and more attention and are of a quality that the big players are only able to deliver for their overpriced prestige cuvées.

The undisputed superstar of this vintner champagne scene is Cédric Bouchard, who, together with his wife Emilie, produces unique wines of unrivaled quality. I am not alone in this opinion, but also the two most profound champagne connoisseurs in the world, Antonio Galloni (vinous.com) and William Kelley (robertparker.com). They both praise the Roses de Jeanne wines, as the Bouchards call their tiny estate, in every vintage!

It goes without saying that Emilie and Cédric cultivate their 2.5 hectares of vines according to Steiner's rules, i.e. biodynamically, harvest hardly more than 25 hectoliters per hectare, categorically refrain from adding sugar to the must, ferment spontaneously (without the addition of pure yeasts) and age their wines in an aroma-neutral way, i.e. without contact with wood. It goes without saying that they would never add a dosage to their wines. Roses de Jeanne stands for unadulterated, unadorned terroir, for the best possible quality.

The wines of Roses de Jeanne will open your eyes to uncompromising quality, as well as an unexpected, possibly unknown champagne dimension, and entertain you at the highest possible level, if you are one of the lucky few who can get hold of a few bottles. And all this at very reasonable prices, not only in comparison with the prices of industrial effervescence, no, effectively!

Sincerely

Carl J. Studer