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2024 Roses de Jeanne - Blanc de Noirs Cote de Val Vilaine (750ml) [PRE ARRIVAL]
2024 Roses de Jeanne (Cédric Bouchard) · Blanc de Noirs "Côte de Val Vilaine"
| Region | Côte des Bar, Champagne |
|---|---|
| Producer | Cédric Bouchard / Roses de Jeanne |
| Grape | 100% Pinot Noir |
| Vineyard | Val Vilaine, Polisy — 1.49 ha, planted 1974 by Bouchard's father, Kimmeridgian limestone |
| Winemaking | Free-run juice only, indigenous yeast, native fermentation, zero dosage, zero additives, organically farmed, ~16 months sur lattes |
| Production | 300–500 cases annually |
Cédric Bouchard is one of the most singular and uncompromising figures in all of grower Champagne — a former sommelier who took over his family's Côte des Bar vines in 2000 and immediately discarded every Champagne convention, producing exclusively single-vineyard, single-variety, single-vintage, zero-dosage wines with among the lowest yields in the appellation. Named Champagne's finest winemaker by Gault Millau in 2008, Bouchard builds wines that are unapologetically terroir-driven rather than house-style driven. Val Vilaine is Roses de Jeanne's flagship Blanc de Noirs — sourced from a 1.49-hectare parcel of 50-year-old Pinot Noir vines on bands of Kimmeridgian limestone in Polisy, the same ancient marine fossil soils that define great Chablis. The 2024 delivers the site's signature: white cherry, lemon, crushed limestone, dried flowers, and a chalky, saline finish with fine, persistent bubbles and striking precision. Not your typical Champagne — something far more interesting.