Champagne Mandois is one of the really nice houses in this mighty area in northern France. And here Mandois tries its hand at a slightly different version of a rosé Champagne, because it is not only made from classic rosé wine, but also has some Saignée added.
Saignée is an early extraction of the rosé production, where the taste is deeper and stronger, just as the color is considerably darker. This makes this Champagne present itself festively and elegantly in a perfectly clear bottle, which really gives the color power and weight when it is bottled after 2.5 years of storage.
Packed with rich red berry fruits
In terms of aroma, the Saignée part in the wine means that the rich notes of red berries have been turned up extra, and the classic rosé part in the wine gives finesse and elegance, which, together with the precise and exact sweetness, make Mandois Rosé Grande Reserve an obvious aperitif or companion to finer dishes, which gives it space to unfold its long aftertaste.
“Often people think of rosé champagne as not champagne, but something else. My champagne rosé is first champagne – then a rosé.” – Claude Mandois
Champagne Mandois is praised by the finest restaurants worldwide for its incredible quality. Deep and elegant, this unique rosé has a carefully balanced sweetness that makes it perfect as an aperitif or as an accompaniment to sushi and other finer dishes.
Champagne Mandois is one of the really nice houses in this mighty area in northern France. And here Mandois tries its hand with a slightly different version of a rosé because it is not only made in the classic way, but also has some Saignée added. Saignée is an early extraction of the rosé production, where the taste is deeper and stronger, just as the color is considerably darker. This makes this Champagne present itself festively and elegantly in a perfectly clear bottle, which really gives the color power and weight when it is bottled after 2.5 years of storage. Packed with rich red berry fruits. In terms of aroma, the Saignée part in the wine means that the rich notes of red berries have been turned up extra, and the classic rosé part in the wine gives finesse and elegance, which, together with the precise and exact sweetness, make Mandois Rosé Grande Reserve an obvious aperitif or companion to finer dishes, which gives it space to unfold its long aftertaste.
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.
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.
