Champagne Le Chemin Empreinté

Le Chemin Empreinté – Blanc de Blanc Champagne from Le Brun de Neuville

The Champagne Le Chemin Empreinté from Champagne Le Brun de Neuville is a selection from the house's best vineyard sites. It is a Blanc de Blancs champagne, meaning a sparkling wine pressed entirely from 100% Chardonnay grapes. 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, 24% 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 unique mouthfeel and further layers of complexity. Naturally, this high-quality champagne undergoes its second fermentation in the traditional bottle-fermentation process, known as the Méthode Champenoise. The Champagne Le Chemin Empreinté is aged on the lees in the bottle for a full 4 years.

Thanks to the high-quality base wines from 2016 and the long bottle-aging process on the lees, this champagne seduces with a creamy minerality and an exceptionally fine perlage; it tastes fresh of apple and peach with light brioche notes and a delicate nuttiness.

Another special feature of the former Authentique line is the use of a special agraffe cork; this cork, which is not as tightly or compactly pressed, allows for a certain degree of micro-oxidation during the bottle-aging period, lending it notes of dried fruit and anise. All of this results in a champagne that thrives on pure Chardonnay and four years of bottle aging. Only about 20,000 bottles of the Le Chemin Empreinté—which translates to "the imprinted path" or "leave a footprint"—are produced by the Champagne house Le Brun de Neuville.

Le Chemin Empreinté – Champagne Extra Brut

• Selection from the best Champagne vineyard sites
• 100% Chardonnay
• 48 months of bottle aging
• Manual disgorgement
• Dosage 4g/l
• Extra Brut
• 12% vol. alcohol