NV Chartogne-Taillet Les Alliees

From a parcel characterized by sandy-clay soils, the NV Extra Brut Les Alliées derives entirely from the 2013 vintage. Offering up aromas of yellow orchard fruit, dried white flowers, beeswax and mandarin, it's full-bodied, racy and incisive, with a tightly wound but concentrated core, tangy acids and a long, mineral finish. In keeping with the vintage, this is a tensile, precise rendition of Les Alliées, and it will need some time. It was disgorged in June 2018 with four grams per liter dosage.