Champagne Tarlant L’Etincelante Brut Nature 2002

Each year the Tarlants make a single multi-parcel wine intended to encapsulate that particular vintage: the name L’Etincelante evokes the “glimmering” nature of the sunny 2002 harvest, “a dream harvest” per Benoìt Tarlant. From six parcels across four villages on a mix of chalk, flint and limestone soils with vines averaging 40 years old. The vines are organically farmed and harvested by hand and the clusters very slowly and gently pressed. The juice ferments spontaneously with native yeasts in Burgundy barrels; the wine does not go through malolactic fermentation. L’Etincelante was bottled in 2003, disgorged in 2018 and received zero dosage.

Blend: 57% Chardonnay, 29% Pinot Noir, 14% Pinot Meunier