Domaine Evremond Classic Cuvée Edition 1
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This is the first, much-anticipated release from Domaine Evremond, a collaboration between Champagne Taittinger and their UK agent Hatch Mansfield. Based on the 2020 vintage with 20% reserve wine from 2019, the wine is a blend of 55% Pinot Noir, 35% Chardonnay and 10% Pinot Meunier. All fermented in stainless steel, the wine was bottled in June 2021 and spent over three years on its lees, disgorged in August 2024. And what a first release! The nose is creamy and chalky, with crisp Granny Smith, lime blossom and citrus pith, with hints of riper Conference pear. It’s beautifully fine, saline and pure, with a beautifully fine yet creamy mousse that complements the wine’s tension, driving to a stony, flinty, oyster-shell finish. With the high proportion of Pinot Noir, there’s breadth here too, but it’s linear in style, fine-boned and filigree. With a dosage of 7g/l, it’s a brilliantly balanced wine – and an outstanding opening gambit from this exciting project.
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Anne Krebiehl MW, Vinous
Jamie Goode, Wine Anorak
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The NV Brut Classic Cuvée Edition I is the inaugural release of Champagne Taittinger's English sparkling wine project founded in 2014, made from vines planted in 2017 in chalk and flint soils in Kent. It is based on the 2020 vintage with around 25% of reserve wines dating to the tiny first vintage of 2018 and the first proper vintage in 2019, all fermented and aged in stainless steel only, undergoing full malolactic conversion. The wine is a blend (...) reflecting the current plantings at the 69-hectare estate. A citric, bright lemon and green apple freshness defines the lively nose of the wine. More air allows lemony Viennoiserie to peep through, as well as an ozone breeze. Fine, creamy bubbles immediately distinguish the slender palate, where more lemon freshness is bedded in the smoothness of that exemplary mousse. An impressive and elegant debut, svelte and clean-cut, especially considering the Pinot Noir dominance of the wine. Chapeau.
12.5% alcohol. This is fine, linear and delicate with beautifully integrated acidity, and a subtle saline twist to the pure, lemony fruit, together with a hint of cherry. Pure, quite pristine and expressive, this is quite a delicate, refined wine, rather than a powerful one, and it works really well. A great start to this ambitious project.
About the producer
A joint venture between Hatch Mansfield and Champagne Taittinger, Domaine Evremond is one of England’s most exciting producers. In 2015, the team purchased land in Chilham, Kent, previously home to apple and pear orchards. Planting started in 2017 and the first wine was released in 2025.