Champagne La Croisée des Chemins

La Croisée des Chemins – Champagne from Le Brun de Neuville

The La Croisée des Chemins Champagne from Champagne Le Brun de Neuville is a selection from the house's best vineyard sites. It is a cuvée of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. The majority of the base wine is aged in stainless steel tanks, though 8% is fermented in oak barrels. To add complexity to the Champagne, 31% of this cuvée consists of reserve wines from older vintages—a special technique with a significant tradition in the Champagne region. Part of the cuvée has undergone malolactic fermentation, which provides a special mouthfeel and further layering. Naturally, this premium Champagne undergoes its second fermentation using the traditional method: the méthode champenoise. The La Croisée des Chemins Champagne is aged on the lees in the bottle for a full 4 years.

Thanks to the high-quality base wines and long bottle aging on the lees, this Champagne seduces with a creamy minerality and a particularly fine perlage. It offers aromatic notes of red and black currants, candied lemon, the scent of honeysuckle, wet chalk, and buttery puff pastry with peach, all elegant and long-lasting.

Another special feature of the former Authentique line is the use of a special "agrafe" cork. This cork, which is not as tightly or compactly pressed, allows for a certain degree of micro-oxidation during the aging period in the bottle, which imparts notes of dried fruit and anise. All of this results in a Champagne where Chardonnay and Pinot Noir come together beneath the agrafe cork. Only about 20,000 bottles of La Croisée des Chemins—which translates to "the crossroads"—are produced by the Le Brun de Neuville Champagne house.

La Croisée des Chemins – Champagne Extra Brut

• Selection from best Champagne vineyard sites
• 70% Chardonnay
• 30% Pinot Noir
• 48 months bottle aging
• Hand-disgorged
• Dosage 6g/l
• Extra Brut
• 12% vol. alcohol