La Cuvée Brut Champagne Laurent Perrier
Grapes Pinot Meunier, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay
Colour White Origin France, Non-Vintage
District Champagne ABV 12%
Origin France, Non-Vintage
District Champagne
We are currently not re-stocking Laurent Perrier Champagnes. Browse our full list of Non-vintage and Vintage Champagnes here. L&S (Jun 2018)
Currently out of stock in our warehouse.
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2017 saw Laurent Perrier releasing their first 'New' champagne since 1981. 'La Cuvée' is replacing their traditional Non Vintage Brut - but the House is very keen to emphasise that this is much more than a simple rebranding exercise. This is a totally different 'Cuvée'. The first upgrade is that through buying and cotrolling more vineyards LP now has tighter control of the quality of its fruit - More than 100 crus selected by Laurent-Perrier now enter into the composition of La Cuvée. To improve the 'recipe' - the wine spends an extra year ageing in the cellar on the lees - resulting in a more complex and developed taste. The amount of Reserve wines has increased by 50% from the Brut NV days - to ensure a continuity of style year on year. The cellar-master has increased the Chardonnay content which is now up to 55% of the blend - adding some aromatic freshness and sleek elegance too. They have also reduced the sweetness of the dosage by 10% - the result is a brighter, more delicate, cleaner feeling wine.L&S(Apr 2017)
La Cuvée is the new, shiny, rebranded Brut NV, only just launched. In 2004 Laurent-Perrier got access to quite a large bit of good Chardonnay vineyards, and this set in motion a 13-year plan to adapt and 'enhance' the LP Brut. 55% Chardonnay, 35% Pinot Noir, 10% Pinot Meunier from 110 growers. Base vintage 2012 with 30% reserve wine. They've dropped the dosage from 12.5 g/l to 9 g/l, and the wine spends four years on the lees. Pale colour. Lemon shortbread nose, the tiniest hint of marzipan, verbena. Needle-fine mousse and intense, sharpened, lemon-sherbet acidity. Very pointed, with a bit of lemon-bon-bon sweetness on the finish. Razor-sharp finish. Elegant, angular, classic. Rating: 16.5 Tamlyn Currin - www.JancisRobinson.com(Jun 2017)
The House of Laurent Perrier can lay claim to another famous Champagne widow. In 1881 Alphonse Pierlot gifted his Champagne House to his cellar master Eugene Laurent, who only lasted until 1887 when his widow Mathilde-Emilie Perrier took control of Veuve Laurent-Perrier & Cie. Mathilde guided the company through the early years of the 20th Century and the ravages of World War I. On her death in 1925, Eugenie Laurent inherited the company, but was unable to steer a successful path through the difficult inter-war years and in 1939, with another war looming, sold Laurent-Perrier to Marie-Louise Lanson de Nonancourt, who's family still run the company today. Success for Laurent-Perrier came in the post-War years with the House joining the ranks of the more famous names. Their multi-vintage prestige cuvée - Grand Siécle - was launched in 1959, and the iconic saignée method rosé followed in 1968.
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