Amazone is Palmer & Co’s “cuvée prestige”. This is usually the term used for the house’s top wine, produced in limited quantities. Amazone de Palmer is composed of 51% Chardonnay from the 1er Cru villages of Trépail and Villers-Marmerey and 49% Pinot Noir from the Grand Crus of Mailly and Verzenay. 18% of the wine is old reserve wines from Palmer’s Chardonnay solera. A great wine experience!
Colour: Golden.
Scent: A wonderful, exotic scent of mango, floral hints of jasmine and a trickle of browned butter.
Tasting notes: Wonderful taste of acacia honey, dried fruit and nuts with a wonderful, sparkling acidity.
Serving suggestions: Enjoy with light, bright dishes with fish or poultry, or as a “meditation wine”.
Palmer & Co is a Champagne house based in Reims. The company started as a cooperative between 7 winegrowers in 1947, and Palmer quickly became the favorite of the distinguished houses when they bought wines and grapes from abroad for the big cuvées. Since then, the enterprise has grown exponentially and today they work with 415 hectares, of which approximately 200 are classified as Grand or Premier Cru.
The philosophy of the winery is to find the perfect balance between tradition and scientific advancement methods. For example, Palmer & Co has, as something quite unique, adopted the solera system known from Jerez in Champagne. For 35 years, they have used it to give the reserve wines depth. Xavier Berdin, oenologist at Palmer, calls it “an everlasting blend, the old wine ‘educating’ the new, the young wine feeding the old”. Every year, the upper “layer” of the solera, consisting of oak barrels, is refreshed with wines from the new vintage. Later, this wine is transferred to stainless steel tanks, from where it is used as reserve in wines such as Brut Reserve and Palmer Blanc de Noirs.
Palmer & Co also has a deep cellar with a particularly large stock of older vintage champagnes for sale.
