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Tarlant – BAM! Brut Nature (2010 base)
Pinot Blanc from Champagne, France
27% Pinot Blanc/27% Arbanne/46% Petit Meslier. "BAM!" is an acronym of these three relatively rare, low-yielding Champagne varieties. The vines were planted in 2003 on sandy, silica-rich limestone soils in the lieu-dit Four à Chaux-Sablé in Oeuilly and are certified-organic like the rest of Tarlant...
Organic
DB6172-10
Tarlant – Cuvée Louis Brut Nature (2002-03 Base)
Chardonnay, Pinot Noir from Champagne, France
50%Chardonnay/50% Pinot Noir. Created by the Tarlants' parents back in 1982, the prestige cuvée Louis is named for Benoît’s and Melanie’s great-great-great grandfather. Louis was the first to bottle estate wine (in 1928) and the one to plant this 0.9 hectares of selection massale Pinot Noir and...
94 VMOrganic
DB2954-02
Tarlant – L'Aérienne Brut Nature
Chardonnay from Champagne, France
70% Chardonnay/30% Pinot Noir. Each year the Tarlants make a single multi-parcel wine intended to encapsulate that particular vintage: the name L'Aerienne evokes the airy, ethereal nature of the 2004 harvest, "a year won by Chardonnay" according to Benoìt Tarlant. From 4 parcels across the villages...
Organic
DB5871-04
Tarlant – L'Etincelante Brut Nature
Chardonnay from Champagne, France
57% Chardonnay/29% Pinot Noir/14% Pinot Meunier. Each year the Tarlants make a single multi-parcel wine intended to encapsulate that particular vintage: the name Etincelante evokes the “glittering” nature of the sunny 2002 harvest, "a dream harvest" per Benoìt Tarlant. From six parcels across four...
Organic
DB5813-02
Tarlant – La Matinale Brut Nature
Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier from Champagne, France
45% Pinot Noir/28% Chardonnay/27% Pinot Meunier. Hand-harvested very early in the morning (hence the “Matinale” moniker) in this very warm vintage, from multiple estate parcels with vines averaging forty-five years old on chalky soils. The fruit was gently pressed and the juice fermented with...
Organic
DB6173-03
Tarlant – La Vigne d'Antan Brut Nature Non-Greffée
Chardonnay from Champagne, France
100% Chardonnay. From a plot of ungrafted ("non-greffée") vines, planted by the Tarlants' grandfather in 1962 and named "Les Sables" for the very sandy, siliceous soils. The historical way of propagating these special vines led to the name "Antan", meaning essentially "yesteryear". As for all...
Organic
DB2860-02
Tarlant – La Vigne d'Or Brut Nature
Pinot Meunier from Champagne, France
100% Pinot Meunier. A blanc des noirs from a single parcel called "Pierre de Bellevue", planted in 1947 in Oeuilly by the Tarlants' paternal grandfather Georges on Sparnacian clay-limestone soils (a type specific to the Marne Valley and particularly suited for both black Pinot grapes). The fruit...
Sustainable
DB6171-04
Tarlant – La Vigne Royale Brut Nature
Pinot Noir from Champagne, France
BY SPECIAL ORDER ONLY 100% Pinot Noir. Tarlant's blanc des noirs from a single parcel of vines called "Mocque Tonneau", planted in 1972 by the Tarlants' maternal grandfather Maurice on a steep, chalky hillside in Celles-lès-Condé at the junction of the small Dhuys and Surmelin rivers (a favorite...
Organic
DB6170-03
Tarlant – Rosé Zéro Brut Nature (2013 Base)
Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier from Champagne, France
50% Chardonnay/44% Pinot Noir/6% Pinot Meunier. Tarlant rosé used to be mainly Chardonnay with about fifteen percent Pinot Noir and no Meunier; Benoît has shifted it to much more Pinot Noir and added a little Meunier and derives most of the color from maceration instead of from the addition of...
91 VM, 91 WAOrganic
DB2951-13
Tarlant – Zéro Brut Nature (2010 Base)
Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier from Champagne, France
One-third Chardonnay, one-third Pinot Noir, one-third Pinot Meunier. This cuvée makes up sixty percent of Tarlant's production and sets the standards and expectations for all of their wines: an emphasis on terroir with no diversion from added yeast or dosage. The non-vintage is generally composed...
Organic
DB2950-10
Tarlant – Zéro Brut Nature (2012 Base)
Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier from Champagne, France
1/3 each Chardonnay/Pinot Noir/Pinot Meunier. This cuvée makes up 60% of Tarlant's production and sets the standards and expectations for all of their wines: an emphasis on terroir with no diversion from added yeast or dosage. This Zéro is 65% 2012 with 35% reserve winesfrom 2011, 2010 and 2009....
Organic
DB2952-12