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Rare Millésime 2013
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About this wine
Rare Millésime 2013 from Rare Champagne is a sparkling wine from Champagne AOC, France. It is made from Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Published figures: 12% alcohol.
The tasting card
- Producer
- Rare Champagne
- Wine
- Rare Millésime
- Vintage
- 2013
- Region
- Champagne, France
- Appellation
- Champagne AOC
- Grapes
- Chardonnay, Pinot Noir
Percentages not confirmed - Sweetness
- Dry, as the bottle's label says
- Farming
- No verified farming claim
- Alcohol
- 12%
Tasting note
intensely bright, light golden; white flowers, black tea, citrus, kiwi, kumquat; lime blossom, green tea, fern; greengage plums; chestnut honey, sweet spices, vanilla, marzipan; smoky; plump and prolonged aftertaste
From the importer's sheet, in its own words, shortened.
Winemaking
From the US importer's tech sheet for the 2013 vintage. Only what the sheet prints.
- Aged for
- Time aged on lees: 8 years minimum; Time aged with a cork: 1 year minimum
- Made
- Exclusive use of "the cuvée"; Full malolactic fermentation; Dosage: 9g/L
- Blend
- 70% Chardonnay, 30% Pinot Noir
- The importer suggests
- Seafood platter; Roasted scallops, kumquats and pomegranate with coriander, accompanied by an apple, lemon and ginger jus; "Aguachile" seabass tartare, kiwi, cucumber
- The importer's drinking window
- Dazzling until 2040, resplendent thereafter.
Champagne: see the Vintage Map
Structure
A bar appears only where the producer published a number. Measured figures come from the producer's technical sheet; the body bar is inferred from alcohol and labelled that way.
12% alcoholinferred Body is estimated from alcohol. It is not a producer measurement.
absent Not measured. No producer tech sheet behind these wines publishes tannin as a number, so we show no bar.
absent No residual sugar figure published.
absent No total acidity figure published.
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