Classy and delicious non-vintage Champagne consisting of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Meunier. Here are all the elements you want from a Champagne. It is rich and creamy with gentle bubbles, it smells of yellow apples and citrus fruits and in the taste you get the characteristic champagne notes of bread and biscuits. Mandois is a producer who takes his wines seriously, but life is relaxed. An attitude you sense in the wine, which both tastes of depth and quality, but also of celebration and colour.
Brut Origine is Mandois’ classic non-vintage Champagne. This means that it is a Champagne that is composed of wine from several vintages, and in this case it is three consecutive years.
The blend consists of 40 per cent Chardonnay, 30 per cent. Pinot Noir and 30 per cent. Meunier. All three grape varieties are among the most used in Champagne, and here they come from all of the house’s fields. Several of them are classified as 1st Cru and Grand Cru, so they are grapes from the best vines used for this Brut Origine.
The wine ages for 36 months before a controlled dosage is added, which ensures a certain softness in the final result.
The result is a rich and creamy Champagne with calm bubbles, a pleasant toasted tone and nuances of citrus, ripe berries, pineapple and honey.
Here are all the elements you want from a Champagne. It is rich and creamy with gentle bubbles, it smells of yellow apples and citrus fruits and in the taste you get the characteristic champagne notes of bread and biscuits.
The wine ages for 36 months before a controlled dosage is added, which ensures a certain softness in the final result.
About Mandois
Genuine and pure quality, founded on traditions with hundreds of years behind them. Champagne Mandois has not had to draw attention to itself with grand gestures and luxurious measures – the quality of the Champagne house’s products speaks for itself and over the centuries has achieved an impressive and deserved status as the preferred Champagne of the French Michelin restaurants.
And it is no wonder that Champagne Mandois has a quality that seems to be nothing less than divine. This is evidenced by the place in Le Guide Fleurus des Vins, the finest wine guide for French sommeliers – as well as the award as Vigneron de l’année 2003, which is one of the most prestigious awards in the French wine industry.
Heavenly – and almost divine
What today tastes like luxury and elegance actually started with austerity and abstinence from the Benedictine monk Brother Oudard. But there is a straight line from the thoughts he had when tending to the few vines at the monastery he had at home, and to the methods Jean Mandois swore by when he acquired his first vineyards in Epernay in 1735.
In 1860, it was Victor Mandois who founded the more commercial part of the Champagne house, and over the 1900s, the next generations developed the business into an internationally recognized brand, which today is considered one of the largest Champagne houses.
Today, Champagne Mandois has 34 hectares of vineyards, where all energy is put into creating the optimal Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier and Pinot Noir grapes for the house’s Champagne production. The vines are only plowed in every other row, so that the root network has even better space to spread, and this tradition has undoubtedly helped to ensure grape vines that can be even more intense in the way they collect nourishment.
Mandois also buys grapes from the best Grand Cru fields nearby, and together it gives a quality that has made the finest restaurants and sommeliers roll their eyes.
Storage in church chapel
The champagne is stored in 600 liter casks in very special surroundings under the chapel in the church in the village of Pierry just outside Epernay. And so the line is intact from Brother Oudard of the Benedictine monastery to the cellar under the chapel in Pierry and to the blissful and divine quality of Champagne Mandois’s wines.
Whether it is the classic dry Champagne or the crisp Brut Nature, which Michelin restaurants and gourmet experts praise, Champagne Mandois is a house that delivers top-class products, and it seems that the quality only increases every year. Whether it’s the classic Brut Origine, the luxurious Cuvee Victor or the extravagant Champagne Le Clos.
93 POINT Decanter
91 POINTS Wine Spectator
90 POINTS Wine Enthusiast
90 POINTS Extra Magazine
****** The bottleneck
