Champagne
Silex & Craie - 2020 - Champagne Famille Collet
Thomas & Florent Collet
A creamy yet weightless Champagne, both sun-kissed and mineral. Aromas of Granny Smith apple, sesame, honey, and oyster shell. Sharp-edged fizz, lovely tension, firm bead, with a long, powerful finish.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Organic wine
- Designation
- Champagne AOP
- Degree of alcohol
- 13 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2032
- rock’n’roll
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100% Chardonnay from organically farmed vines planted on white soils of flint and chalk in the northern terroir of Fontaine-Denis-Nuisy. Composed of 70% from the 2020 harvest and 30% from 2019. Manual harvest, direct pressing, fermentation and ageing: 50% in 300L oak barrels, 20% in demi-muids, the rest in tank. Bottled for second fermentation, with a total maturation of 50 months including time on lattes, disgorged in May 2024. Dosage at 1 gram per litre — this is an Extra-Brut. Neither fined nor filtered.

Thomas et Florent Collet
Florent and Thomas Collet are the two brothers behind Famille Collet Champagne, a 6-hectare estate rooted in Fontaine-Denis-Nuisy — a village where wine has been part of life for over a thousand years. The Collet family’s own story goes way back too: their ties to Champagne date all the way to 1744 — no less! In 1973, it was their father, René Collet, who laid the foundations of the Domaine as...
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