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In the fifth part of our Champagne Weeks today we are talking 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 per year, he also only produces very small 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. This region mainly produces Pinot Meunier the often overlooked and underestimated third main grape variety for Champagne.

From manager to champagne winemaker

First, however, Jean Servagnat studied economics in Paris and London, and worked in this profession for some time before returning to his parents' vineyard in Coulommes la Montage. His longing for his homeland and viticulture was greater and so, back in the Champagne region, he began a parallel business. Oenology studies in Avize.

In 2015, the time had finally come for Jean Servagnat to bottle his first own champagne. He cultivates Only 1.5 hectares - All biodynamic. Most of it Pinot Meunier alongside some Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. He does not use insecticides or pesticides.

The grapes are harvested by hand, fermented spontaneously and then matured partly in wood and partly in steel. Servagnat uses thermo-regulated 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.
Les Galipes de Coulommes Premier Cru Extra Brut NV 1500ml - Jean Servagnat

The style of Jean Servagnat

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 sign of the 3.5g residual sweetness. A Complex champagne As an aperitif for friends of very dry wines and certainly also ideally suited to accompany food.

No dogma

"I have no dogma for my wines", that is the motto. Because every year is different in terms of climate, not every fermentation is absolutely uniform. If you work as close to nature as Jean Servagnatthen intuition is essential when making wine. His unconditional will to understand nature better and better and to do it more and more justice in viticulture year after year is quite obvious - and thus to constantly improve the quality of his champagnes.
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The wines

Les Galipes des Coulommes
(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

Les Meuniers Insoumis (i.e. the rebellious Meuniers)
(100% Pinot Meunier) AOC Premier Cru, Extra Brut, 3.5g/l dosage from reserve wines, 30-year-old vines, limestone soils at 150m altitude

Vendange Solaire (Vintage Champagne 2018)
(Chardonnay 44%, Pinot Noir 33%, Pinot Meunier 23%), AOC Premier Cru, Extra Brut, 2,3 g/l Residual Sugar
Photos: Jean Servagnat
Text: Christian Wu

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