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In the fifth part of our Champagne Weeks Today we talk about the young champagne talent Jean Servagnat.
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Jean Servagnat
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Jean Servagnat is another great winemaking talent from Champagne in the Lebendige Weine programme. With Only 6000 bottles a year, he too only produces absolute tiny quantities. The winery is located in the Petite Montagne, a relatively cool sub-region of Champagne with a lot of rainfall, between Reims and Epernay. In this region, mainly Pinot Meunier the often overlooked and underestimated third main grape variety for Champagne.
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From manager to champagne winemaker
First of all, however, Jean Servagnat studied economics in Paris and London, and also worked in this profession for a longer time before returning to his parents' vineyard in Coulommes la Montage. The longing for his homeland and viticulture was just greater and so he began back in the Champage parallel a Oenology studies in Avize.
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In 2015, the time had come and Jean Servagnat was finally able to bottle his first own champagnes. He farms Only 1.5 hectares - all biodynamic. Most of it Pinot Meunier alongside some Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. He avoids both insecticides and pesticides.
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The grapes are hand-picked, fermented spontaneously and then further aged partly in wood and partly in steel. Servagnat uses thermoregulated steel tanks to achieve a Maximum freshness and balance to achieve - here, too, his undogmatic approach in winemaking. His champagnes all come without filtration on the bottle.
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The style of Jean Servagnat
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Thus his "Gallipes des Couloummes"(a cuvée of 68% Pinot Meunier, 22% Chardonnay, 10% Pinot Noir) fresh, taut but also smoky and yeasty. Notes of light stone fruit and with fine, animating perlage. There is no trace of the 3.5g of residual sweetness. A Complex champagne as an aperitif for friends of very dry wines and certainly also ideally suited as an accompaniment to food.
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No dogma
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"I have no dogma for my wines" is the motto. Because every year is climatically different, and not every fermentation is absolutely uniform. If you work as close to nature as Jean Servagnatthen intuition is indispensable in winemaking. It is obvious that he is determined to understand nature better and better and to do justice to it in viticulture year after year - and thus to improve the quality of his champagnes.
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The wines
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(68% Pinot Meunier, 22% Chardonnay, 10% Pinot Noir), AOC Premier Cru, Extra Brut, 3,5g/l dosage from reserve wines, 25 year old vines, limestone soils at 150m altitude.
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Les Meuniers Insoumis (i.e. the rebellious Meuniers)
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(100% Pinot Meunier) AOC Premier Cru, Extra Brut, 3,5g/l dosage from reserve wines, 30 year old vines, limestone soils at 150m altitude.
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(Chardonnay 44%, Pinot Noir 33%, Pinot Meunier 23%), AOC Premier Cru, Extra Brut, 2,3 g/l Residual Sugar
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