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Les Vins du Siècle est un grand site fédérateur, bilingue et mondial. Dans toute la France, « triés sur le volet », les meilleurs producteurs (la très grande majorité ayant l’exclusivité de leur appellation) sont retenus pour la typicité des vins, leur rapport qualité-prix-plaisir, l'expression de leur terroir et leur passion de vignerons.

Pas de vins à la mode, surcôtés ou de "jus de bois" dans Les Vins du Siècle. La typicité d’un vin, ce n’est rien d’autre que l’association d’un sol, d’un micro-climat, d’une plante et d’un homme. On ne peut aimer un vin qu’en appréciant celui qui le fait. Derrière une étiquette, il y a un viticulteur (ou une viticultrice) et c’est fondamental de ne pas les dissocier. Bien sûr, les sols ont une influence considérable et, dans chaque territoire, dans chaque commune, le vigneron fait la différence avec son voisin.

Il ne s’agit donc pas seulement de faire du bon vin, ce que tout le monde peut faire, mais surtout d’élever de vrais vins racés, reconnaissables entre mille, qui sentent ce “fumé” bourguignon, déploient ce “velours” libournais, ces senteurs alsaciennes, cette “chair” en Médoc ou à Châteauneuf, cette “minéralité” à Pouilly ou à Meursault, cette fraîcheur en Champagne comme dans nos grands liquoreux.

HALL OF FAME

DOMAINE DE LA GUILLOTERIE

SAUMUR-CHAMPIGNY

Managed by the Duveau family for several generations, the vineyard of Domaine de la Guilloterie today covers 50 hectares. Set to the south of the Loire and on the banks of its tributary the Thouet, this area benefits from weather conditions that are particularly favourable to vine-growing. On this clay-limestone soil, the vine-varieties flourish, giving expressive, characterful, distinctive wines. Domaine de la Guilloterie produces an excellent Saumur white, made exclusively with the Chenin variety. It is fresh, with highly distinctive, flattering aromas. The Saumur red is supple and very aromatic, with good body enabling a short ageing period. The Saumur Champigny is very harmonious and distinctive, with lasting aromas of red fruit - a complex, elegant wine. The Saumur Mousseux brut and the Crémant de Loire both have fine bubbles and are made according to traditional methods. They are most pleasant when drunk chilled.

CLOS TRIMOULET

SAINT-EMILION Grand Cru

Located to the north of Saint-Emilion, "Clos Trimoulet" is a family estate on which the ancestral skills have been handed down over five generations now. Guy Appollot and his two sons, Alain et Joël, have managed to preseve this heritage, whilst combining it with the most modern of techniques. The estate is divided into several plots of vines with clay and sandy soils which give the wine structure, longevity and finesse. The grapes are picked when they are perfectly ripe and undergo a long vatting process which extracts as many tannins as possible. The result is that "Clos Trimoulet" is an excellent wine for laying down. All the production is bottled on the estate after 18 months of maturing in oak barrels. Discover Saint-Émilion GC 2009, silver medal in Challenge international of the wine 2011, with the red fruit scents, of leather and undergrowth, full taste in mouth, powerful, tasty, rich color as out of structure, of guard. Beautiful 2008, silver medal with the competition of Vignerons Indépendants, the subtle bouquet where the prune and the spices prevail, mixing suppleness and structure. The 2007, of molten and scented mouth, are quite traditional, all in roundness, of intense color ruby, with the nose marked by currant and the undergrowth, with round tannins, associating richness and harmony, fullbodied and spiced as it is needed. “The 2007 are one vintage miraculous, explain Alain Appollot, nature was generous with us. Thanks to our work upstream, with the care which we had taken to the vine during all of summer, the grapes were very nice, the analyzes were very good besides, surprising even, revealing pH completely correct. That gives very fruity wines, of a beautiful balance, rather traditional wines finally. For the maturing, we did not use too much of new wood, we do not make a point of masking the wines. I respect the vintage and his characteristics, I do not seek to gum them but on the contrary to underline the best.”

DOMAINE DE GRANDMAISON EARL

PESSAC-LEOGNAN

A winegrowing of 19 ha resulting from an exceptional siliceous low register soil and the gravelly clays strewn with hardcores calcareous (65% Sauvignon, 15% Sauvignon gray and 20% Sémillon for the white wines; 60% Merlot, 30% Cabernet-Sauvignon and 10% Cabernet franc for the red wines). Manual grape harvest, maturing of the white 30% out of new barrels for 6 months on the lees delicate and 70% out of tanks on the lees also; red: wine of drop 80% of harvest out of barrels for 12 months and wine of press 20%. The wine produced on the winegrowing is characterized by a mineral expression as much in red that in white reflecting the type of ground argilo-limestone. Beautiful sure value with this Pessac-Léognan rouge 2010, rich color, dense, where the morello cherry and the humus mix, a wine fleshy, robust, of guard. Tasty 2009, with spice and the macerated, fleshy fruit notes, with very well-balanced tannins, fleshy the characteristic, full taste in mouth, of beautiful evolution. The 2008, of deep color, structured, full, with rich tannins and which are based well, of the aromas of quite ripe fruits (blackcurrant, morello cherry…), all finally, also promising. The 2007, of garnet-red color to the reflections violine, it is all in mouth, with much of structure, quite well-balanced, with the nose of cherry and humus, very elegant structure. The 2006, dense, where the morello cherry, the currant and the humus mix, with tannins silky, quite fleshy, full and are structured, of guard. The 2005, combining a tannic smoothness with a roundness in persistent mouth, are cordial, of very good evolution. Beautiful Pessac-Léognan blanc 2010, round, with prevailing of white flowers and small dried fruits, powerful but very delicate, a wine all finally. The 2009, with these aromas of fresh fruits, roasted and flowers, mix nervousness and fleshy with the palate, a wine all in nuances and distinction. The 2008, with scents of hazel nut and honeysuckle, are firm and suave, all harmonizes some, really very pleasant. Excellent 2007, with this key of allied acidity to a pleasant roundness, where intermingle with the notes of almond, ripe fruits and heather, of powerful mouth.

CHAMPAGNE MAURICE VESSELLE

BOUZY

A family estate of 9 ha vines, where one vinifies the vintages without malolactic fermentation. This house proposes to you this superb Champagne Grand Cru Millésimé 2000, all stops some, rich and complex, powerful and persistent, very fruity with the nose as in mouth, with crystallized notes, extremely well proportioned, perfect on a roast poultry. The Millésimé Grand Cru 2004, rich with the nose, is of a great aromatic complexity where one finds nuances of lemon and honey, a beautiful vintage, dense and distinguished at the same time, all in freshness and persistence finally. The brut Grand Cru Bouzy rosé, 100% Pinot noir, obtained by short maceration, collected not less than 4 medals in 2010: of Gold to General competition Agricole in Paris and Challenge International of the wine, of Argent to the competition of Vignerons Indépendants and of Bronze to International Wine Challenge. The wine is indeed remarkable, with a strong color, traditional with this ripe raspberry nose, very tasty. The cuvée Réserve Grand Cru, silver medal with the competition of vine growers Indépendants 2010, dense and is distinguished at the same time, mixing roundness and nervousness, with hazel nut the nose and apple, a harmonious Champagne. The brut cuvée Réservée Grand Cru is a Champagne at the same time vinous and very delicate, fullbodied and very fruity, with the notes characteristic of ripe small fruits and toast, of a nice fullness in mouth. Beautiful Bouzy rouge 2002, of beautiful color intense ruby, with the nose marked by crystallized blackberry aromas, very full and rich in mouth.

CHAMPAGNE CHARPENTIER

CHARLY-SUR-MARNE

It is today the eighth generation of vine growers which directs this house founded in 1855.Le vineyard counts 20 ha under reasoned fight. The planted grape varieties are single and atypical for the area of the valley of the Marne: 45% of Chardonnay, 40% of Pinot meunier and 15% of Pinot noir. The barouche, emblem of the house represented on the label of the vintage Terre d' Emotion, symbolizes the duty to perpetuate know-how and the values received in heritage. The pieces of old vines intended for the development of the vintages Terre d' Émotion, are cultivated in biodynamy. The house proposes to you to discover this Champagne brut Terre d’Émotion rosé, assembly only of old vines with prevailing of Chardonnay, with the subtle aromas of strawberry of wood, quite well-balanced mouth where one finds notes of brioche and almond, a wine as one likes them, frankly, of beautiful color, typified, of abundant foam, very charmer on a white meat with the cream as on a cake with the fruits. Their Champagne Terre d’Émotion Blanc de noirs (Pinot noir majority, and Pinot meunier, resulting from old vines), robust, releases a fruity complex, generous and charmer, a very round but very delicate wine also, of persistent foam. The Terre d' Émotion Blanc de blancs (pure Chardonnay compartmental old women vines and wine makings) is of light and intense foam, of powerful mouth, rich in aromas (almond, white flowers…), of beautiful structure. The brut rosé, of round mouth, of a very beautiful expression, developing elegance and vinosity, slightly is with a strong color spiced. You will appreciate also the brut rosé one, all in aromatic persistence (ripe, pink, grooves…) to uncork as well with aperitif as on a roast bass. Beautiful brut Millésime 2006, powerful and delicate at the same time, quite well-balanced in mouth, with persistent floral notes then nuances of quince and fresh almond, full and charmer, a vintage all in aromatic freshness, with fresh fruit notes to the palate. There are also this Champagne Brut Tradition, Champagne assembly of three type of vines, with prevailing of Pinot meunier, rich and well structured mouth, a nice smoothness, in creamy and distinguished foam, really very pleasant, and brut Terre d' Émotion, of a beautiful color but, with aromas quite present and notes of lime and honey, finely having a nice bouquet and robust, of a great fullness finally. The brut Réserve, assembly of three type of vines with prevailing Pinot meunier with wines of reserve in greater proportion, at the same time robust and distinguished, of a beautiful nervousness, of a great elegance, a vintage with the ripe citrus fruits scents and nut, very harmonious in mouth.