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Vinous: "One of the most memorable wines I tasted this year"

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    NV Laherte Frères Blanc de Blancs Brut Nature Champagne France 750 ml

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    "Stunning" All-Star Champagne

    Bubbles get us excited, period, but a wine like the Laherte Frères Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut Nature—a bone-dry, under-$75 Champagne that Antonio Galloni of Vinous said was “one of the most memorable wines I tasted this year”—well, that’s the kind of bubbly we live for.

    Galloni called the Laherte “stunning,” praising it as "highly nuanced to the core.” Wine Advocate praised it as “beautifully pure.” We call it laser-focused and precise. It is a perfect expression of the winemaking approach of the Laherte family, who fashioned this wine from the fruit of 35-year-old Chardonnay vines planted on premium plots in the Coteaux Sud d’Épernay.

    The young Aurélien Laherte is the seventh generation of his family to steward their 11 hectares of vineyards—and one of the rising stars of the grower-Champagne movement. The Laherte family farms every bit of their vineyards themselves, a rarity in the Champagne world—even if ownership is split among four members of Aurelien’s immediate family for bureaucratic reasons, denying them the Récoltant-Manipulant designation that usually indicates this sort of operation.

    Throughout their history, the family has used a light touch in the vineyard and in the cellar, harvesting by hand and sticking to delicate pressings, plot-by-plot vinifications, minimal dosage, and generous use of reserve wines—50%, in the case of the Blanc de Blancs. The result is a beautiful expression of chalky Champagne terroir: a crystalline, taut, mineral-driven stunner with a generous midpalate and notes of dried fruit and ginger.

    We can’t recall anything like this tremendous offer—critic-favorite, small-production Champagne for under $75 doesn’t come our way very often.