Lombard - Extra Brut NV - 750 ml 12.5 %

Lombard Description
A portion of this blend comes from the estate owned vineyards. The Chardonnay is from the Premiers Crus Villages Grauves and Vertus of the Cote des Blancs, bringing to the wine a freshness and balance of minerality. The Pinot Noir comes from the Montagne de Reims. A very low dosage of 4 g/l preserves the natural balance and acidity of this cuvee.
BLEND (20% reserve wine) 40% Chardonnay Premier Cru Grauves, Vertus 40% Pinot Meunier Premier Cru Coulomnes-la-Montagne 20% Pinot Noir Premier Cru Sermier, Villedo

A View from the Cellar: 90 Points
The new release of Champagne Lombard’s non-vintage Extra Brut is from the base year of 2009 and is a blend of forty percent chardonnay and a sixty percent combination of pinot noir and pinot meunier. The wine was finished with a dosage of four grams per liter and offers up an excellent bouquet of apple, a touch of nectarine, lovely soil tones, fresh-baked bread and a topnote of dried flowers. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, crisp and complex, with a fine core, very good soil signature, pinpoint bubbles and a long, focused and well-balanced finish. The extended aging sur latte has given this wine a lovely layer of secondary complexity and the wine is drinking very well today.