Champagne Ployez-Jacquemart 'Extra Brut Vintage' 2012 Blanc de Blancs Ludes

750ml bottle
12% abv

Bright, buoyant, and elegant, with flavors of ripe pineapple, nectarine, toasted hazelnut, lilac, lemon curd, herbs, and oyster shell. A rich and harmonious blanc de blanc. Smoke, flint, and chalky minerality accompany the long, silky finish.

Dosage 3g/L
Disgorged March 2023
100% Chardonnay

This vintage 2012 Blanc de Blancs is blended from a selection of elegant, refined Chardonnays. The plots of old vines from the Premiers Crus of Cuis and Bisseuil are vinified in oak barrels without malolactic fermentation. The rest of the blend is made up of whites from the Grand Cru terroir of Puisieulx and the Premier Cru terroir of Cuis. As with the rest of our vintage range, Vintage Extra-Brut Blanc de Blancs 2012 has been aged in our cellars for a minimum of 6 years. For the first five years, the wine is aged sur pointe. This traditional ageing method limits contact with yeast, while retaining the benefits of ageing before disgorgement and keeping the wine as fresh as possible for as long as possible.

Founded in Ludes in 1930, Ployez-Jacquemart is now led by Laurence Ployez. The family owns about three hectares in Ludes, Ville-Dommange, Mailly-Champagne, and Vertus, and complements these holdings with carefully selected Premier and Grand Cru fruit. Long cellar aging, low dosage, and the house's traditional sur-pointe storage preserve freshness and minerality, giving the wines a precise, gastronomic style rather than one built on overt richness.

"Third-generation winemaker Laurence Ployez doesn't make corporate, predictable Champagne. Working out of her family's historic estate, she vinifies strictly in un-oaked stainless steel using only pristine first-press juice – no wood makeup, no shortcuts. Her cellar regimen is uncompromising: the wine ages sur pointe (nose-to-punt) in 25-meter-deep chalk cellars to preserve piercing fruit intensity without getting bogged down by heavy lees." – Somm Select