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Item Number: 6890
UPC: 0630646142019
Country: France
Region: Champagne
Appellation/AVA: Champagne AOC
Grape(s): 60% Pinot Meunier / 30% Chardonnay / 10% Pinot Noir
Type: Wine - Sparkling
Bottle Size: 750ml Pack: 12
Closure: Cork
Alc by Vol(%): 12
Total Acidity: 5.5
pH: 3
Viticulture: Practicing Biodynamic
Case Production: 3,500
The Grand Brut Ultradition is a subtle blending of three Champagne varieties and is representative of Champagne Laherte Freres terroirs.
This Champagne comes from the Côteaux sud d’Epernay, Vallée de la Marne and Côte des Blancs. A fine and
complex blending.
Grape Sources: Pinot Meunier is from Chavot-Courcourt, Mancy, Boursault, Vaudancourt, Le breuil with soils of silt, marl and clay. Chardonnay is from Chavot, Vaudancourt and Epernay with soils of fine clay and limestone. Pinot Noir is from Chavot with soils of clay, flint and schist. 40% of the wine is made of reserve wines of past years.
Winemaking Notes: Grapes are picked by hand when fully ripened and traditionally pressed. Fermentation takes place in vats and barrels according to grape varieties and plots. Wine goes through partial malolactic fermentation. Aged six months and light filtration before bottling. Disgorged by hand with 6-9g/l dosage.
Peter Liem
"This is packed with pungent aromas of strawberry, redcurrant and red apple. True to its origins
in the Coteaux Sud d'Epernay and the Vallée de la Marne, it's relatively rich in body, marked by a supple,
velvety texture, and it finishes with fine length and plenty of aroma."
90pts Gourmet Traveller Wine
"Fresh aroma of green apples and pear. Rich lingering flavour. It shows
surprising delicacy for a 60% meunier wine, with a crisp, tight palate and lightly textured finish. A little
toastiness is adding complexity. Rich in the mouth without being weighty."
89pts Burghound.com
"A distinct and expressive nose of citrus blossom and lemon zest
serves as an elegant introduction to delicious, crisp and relatively effervescent flavors that possess tangy
acidity and a yeasty character on the dry finish that makes the mouth salivate."
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Champagne Laherte Frères NV 'Ultradition' Grand Brut, Champagne AOC
Rating: 92
The Laherte NV Brut Ultradition Disg. 10/2012 – 60% Meunier; 30% Chardonnay; 10% Pinot –is
exuberantly dominated by juicy and vivacious lime, peach, grapefruit, and Persian as well as honeydew
melons, their succulent fruit mingled on a polished palate with nut oils and shitake, as well as suffused
with a saliva-drawing sweet-saline, iodine-rich savor of crab and lobster shell reduction that makes for a
compelling finish. Yes, this is certainly a capital “U” umami-rich wine! I’m astounded to realize – given
its sense of energy and vivacity – that it is based on vintage 2009. Whatever be “ultradition,” it’s an
approach I can only heartily commend to other growers! (Of course, you might not be able to make
anything like this if you lack that “secret ingredient,” good Meunier;? and scrolling down to my review of
Lahertes’ “Les 7” might raise suspicions of a connection between their greatest successes – as I perceive
them –and the prominence of unjustly neglected cépages!)
- The Wine Advocate (11/1/2013)
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Champagne Laherte Frères NV 'Ultradition' Grand Brut, Champagne AOC
Rating: 92
Ultradition is the new name for the non-vintage cuvées of Brut and Brut
Rosé from Laherte Frères, and though the name has changed, the quality
remains as high as ever as this fine producer in the Vallée de la Marne.
The blend is the same as it has been for this bottling over the last several
years- sixty percent Pinot Meunier, thirty percent chardonnay and ten
percent Pinot Noir, and like all of the Laherte Frères bottlings of late,
more and more of the vins clairs are being barrel fermented for this wine.
The new release is absolutely lovely, offering up a complex nose of
lemon, apple, bread dough, stony minerality, citrus zest and a topnote of
white flowers (from the Pinot Meunier?). On the palate the wine is pure,
full-bodied, crisp and complex, with lovely mid-palate depth, elegant
mousse and superb length and grip on the crisp and focused finish. This
is one high class bottle of non-vintage Brut! 2013-2025.
- John Gilman View from the Cellar (9/1/2013)
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Champagne Laherte Frères NV 'Ultradition' Grand Brut, Champagne AOC
Rating: *
Made of 60 percent meunier, 30 percent chardonnay and ten percent pinot
noir, this is packed with pungent aromas of strawberry, redcurrant and red
apple. True to its origins in the Coteaux Sud d'Epernay and the Vallée de la
Marne, it's relatively rich in body, marked by a supple, velvety texture, and
it finishes with fine length and plenty of aroma.
- Peter Liem's ChampagneGuide.net (2/1/2013)
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Champagne Laherte Frères NV 'Ultradition' Grand Brut, Champagne AOC
Rating: 90
Pale yellow. Subdued but precise aromas of lemon pith, pear and yellow plum, with a toasty overtone. Pliant, gently spicy orchard fruit flavors show good depth and focus, picking up bitter herb and mineral nuances with air. Shows good clarity and grip on the firm, linear and persistent finish. Very nicely balanced Champagne that possesses both depth and vivacity.
- International Wine Cellar (12/1/2012)
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Champagne Laherte Frères NV 'Ultradition' Grand Brut, Champagne AOC
Rating: 90
The NV Brut Tradition is a beautifully precise, chiseled wine. Citrus, flowers and minerals are woven together in fabric of unusual elegance. This mid-weight, focused Champagne offers terrific energy all the way through to the finessed finish. It is a lovely effort. No disgorgement date provided. Anticipated maturity: 2009-2014.
- The Wine Advocate (10/1/2009)
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