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CHAMPAGNE Édouard Brun
The House Edouard Brun owns a 9.5-hectare domain in the Grand and First Crus of Ay, the Montagne de Reims and the Marne valley. Consisting of grand black varieties, the house’s vineyard is vinified in casks and undergoes both fermentations in 205-litre oakcasks (pièce champenoise).
In charge of the viticulture and vinification, Philippe Delescot explains that “the wood has to serve the harmony of the grape variety”. Only Pinot Noir is matured in several-season-old barrels, the wood improves the varietal thanks to the exchange wine-wood-air. It provides roundness, fatness, aromas of honey and vanilla to the wine. These Pinot Noirs stay in the casks from the harvest until March, and then enter the blends with Pinot Meunier and Chardonnay to be aged in thermoregulated stainless steel vats in order to preserve the lightness and finesse of the wine.
Some hundred pièces champenoises of 205, 400 and 600 litres compose the cellar called galletas in Champagne, overhanging the vathouse. Some of the ageing casks are in the cellar. To pass them from one floor to the other, a curiosity of the house not to be missed during a visit, is the original barrel lift, with cradles and rack, that hoists them and brings them down from one floor to the other.
Philippe et Emmanuel Delescot devant le foudre d'assemblage de la Maison Edouard Brun.
The house Edouard Brun presents some ten cuvees. The most representative, made of 75% Pinot Noir from Ay, is the Réserve 1er Cru. Its good quality-price ratio (€20 a bottle) also makes it a best seller. Since ten years the House Edouard Brun has also developed a prestige collection L’élégante in special bottles, with a colour and a texture like fruits, full of lightness and freshness.
Champagne Édouard Brun
14, rue Marcel Mailly
BP 11 - 51160 Aÿ
Tél. +33 00 (0)3 26 55 20 11
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