Your Wine Guide 91 points
Essi Avelan 95 points
IWSC 95 points
Palmer & Co Blanc de Blancs is a clean, fresh and crisp champagne made from 100% Chardonnay, primarily from Premier Cru fields in the villages of Villers-Marmery and Trépail. A small proportion of the grapes come from the Côte de Sézanne and the final blend is harmonious, delicately fruity and slightly mineral. The wine rests on the yeast residues for 4 years before being released, and has a dosage of 7-8 g/L.
Colour: Straw gold
Scent: Pleasant notes of white flowers, burnt almonds and lime.
Tasting notes: Silky smooth and with great finesse. Notes of pears, guava and nuts.
Serving suggestions: As a welcome, white asparagus, fish and shellfish.
Grapes: Chardonnay
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.
