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Ployez-Jacquemart Brut Champagne Liesse d'Harbonville 1999

Vintage Sparkling Wine from Champagne, France
JG 95
DE 93
12.0% ABV
Item # 318703

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95 points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "The 1999 Ployez-Jacquemart 'Liesse d’Harbonville' is its customary blend of seventy percent chardonnay and thirty percent pinot noir, with all of the vins clairs barrel-fermented and aged for six months in the cellars in two and three year-old barrels. The wine does not undergo malolactic fermentation and is aged for more than twelve years on the lees prior to disgorgement. The 1999 bottling offers up a deep and very classy nose of pear, delicious apple, buttery overtones from the oak, brioche, crème patissière, complex minerality, a bit of hazelnut and a topnote of gentle smokiness. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and very racy (from its non-malo personality), with a great core of fruit, broad shoulders (from the ’99 vintage’s ripeness), very refined mousse and stunning complexity on the very long, poised and perfectly balanced finish. The ripeness of 1999 is mostly felt here in terms of the breadth of the attack and the rock solid nature of the wine in the mid-palate, but I also get the sense that this fine vintage of Liesse d’Harbonville will mature on a faster track than wines such as the 1995 or 1996, and will probably be at its apogee within the next three or our years. It is a stellar example of the ’99 vintage. 2016-2025+. (May/Jun 2014)"

93 points (18/20), Richard Juhlin (Decanter): "A surprise, with its big house style oozing with toasted and acadia-like scents. Soft and sensual with a beautiful, sublime finish of the purest Madagascan vanilla. Drink: 2014-2016. Alcohol 12.5%. (Dec 2014)"

Richard Juhlin: "This domain was established at Ludes in 1930 by Marcel Ployez. After his death it was taken over by his widow until their son Gérard was old enough to take up the reins. Today the daughter Laurence is runing the company. Ployez-Jacquemart own 2,2 hectares at Mailly and Ludes but purchase 85 per cent of their grapes from fine vineyards in the Marne Valley and Côte des Blancs. The famous cuvée de prestige, Liesse d'Harbonville, is fermented in oak barrels. The wines are reminiscent of Gosset in their rich, lightly oxidative style..."
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95 points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "The 1999 Ployez-Jacquemart 'Liesse d’Harbonville' is its customary blend of seventy percent chardonnay and thirty percent pinot noir, with all of the vins clairs barrel-fermented and aged for six months in the cellars in two and three year-old barrels. The wine does not undergo malolactic fermentation and is aged for more than twelve years on the lees prior to disgorgement. The 1999 bottling offers up a deep and very classy nose of pear, delicious apple, buttery overtones from the oak, brioche, crème patissière, complex minerality, a bit of hazelnut and a topnote of gentle smokiness. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and very racy (from its non-malo personality), with a great core of fruit, broad shoulders (from the ’99 vintage’s ripeness), very refined mousse and stunning complexity on the very long, poised and perfectly balanced finish. The ripeness of 1999 is mostly felt here in terms of the breadth of the attack and the rock solid nature of the wine in the mid-palate, but I also get the sense that this fine vintage of Liesse d’Harbonville will mature on a faster track than wines such as the 1995 or 1996, and will probably be at its apogee within the next three or our years. It is a stellar example of the ’99 vintage. 2016-2025+. (May/Jun 2014)"

93 points (18/20), Richard Juhlin (Decanter): "A surprise, with its big house style oozing with toasted and acadia-like scents. Soft and sensual with a beautiful, sublime finish of the purest Madagascan vanilla. Drink: 2014-2016. Alcohol 12.5%. (Dec 2014)"

Richard Juhlin: "This domain was established at Ludes in 1930 by Marcel Ployez. After his death it was taken over by his widow until their son Gérard was old enough to take up the reins. Today the daughter Laurence is runing the company. Ployez-Jacquemart own 2,2 hectares at Mailly and Ludes but purchase 85 per cent of their grapes from fine vineyards in the Marne Valley and Côte des Blancs. The famous cuvée de prestige, Liesse d'Harbonville, is fermented in oak barrels. The wines are reminiscent of Gosset in their rich, lightly oxidative style..."
Product SKU 318703
Producer Ployez-Jacquemart
Country France
Region Champagne
Varietal Champagne / Sparkling Blend
Designation Brut
Vintage 1999
Size 750ml
Color White
Blend 70% Chardonnay; 30% Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier
ABV 12.0%
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