Castelnau Champagne

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  • The House of Champagne Castelnau has been making quality Champagne wines since 1916 in Reims. Today this house is part of the Regional Cooperative of Champagne Wines, owner of 149 vintages spread over no less than 900 hectares of vineyards in the best terroirs of Champagne.

    This House is among the greatest vineyards and offers you different champagnes : Brut, Brut Réserve, Rosé, Vintage, Blanc de Blancs Vintage, and Cuvée Hors Catégorie, to discover in our store.

  • Champagne Castelnau Brut

    Champagne Castelnau Brut 75cl

    Champagne Brut from De Castelnau is a wine elaborated from a blend composed of 40% Chardonnay, 20% Pinot Noir, and 40% Pinot...
    32,00 € from 6 34,00 € unit
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  • Champagne Castelnau Rosé

    Champagne Castelnau Rosé 75cl

    Cuvée Brut Rosé from De Castelnau is a wine elaborated from a blend composed of 35% Chardonnay, 14% Pinot Noir, 51% Pinot...
    32,00 € from 3 36,00 € unit
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  • Champagne Castelnau Extra-Brut

    Champagne Castelnau Extra-Brut 75cl

    Cuvée Extra-Brut from Maison CASTELNAU recalls gourmandise and authenticity in its extra-brut declination.
    36,00 €
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  • Champagne Castelnau Brut Millésime 2006

    Champagne Castelnau Brut Millésime 2006 75cl

    Champagne Brut vintage 2006 from Maison CASTELNAU is elaborated from a blend composed of 50% Chardonnay, 30% Pinot Noir and 20%...
    46,00 €
    Temporarily out of stock
  • Champagne Castelnau ES 9.1 Solera

    Champagne Castelnau ES 9.1 Solera 75cl

    Cuvée Origine ES 9.1 from CASTELNAU is the second cuvée from the perpetual reserve and bottled in 2018, a cuvée composed of...
    48,00 €
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  • Champagne Castelnau Blanc de Blancs 2008

    Champagne Castelnau Blanc de Blancs 2008 75cl

    Cuvée Blanc de Blancs 2008 from Maison Castelnau represents the sacred alliance of elegance and power in a great vintage.
    50,00 €
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  • Champagne Castelnau Brut Magnum

    Champagne Castelnau Brut Magnum 150cl

    This magnum of champagne Brut from De Castelnau is a wine elaborated from a blend composed of 40% Chardonnay, 20% Pinot Noir,...
    70,00 €
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  • Champagne Castelnau Cuvée Hors Catégorie

    Champagne Castelnau Cuvée Hors Catégorie 75cl

    Maison Castelnau's rare Cuvée HORS CATEGORIE (600 bottles), from the 1993 harvest, is a truly exceptional Champagne.
    115,00 €
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  • Champagne Castelnau Brut Oenothèque 2002 Magnum

    Champagne Castelnau Brut Oenothèque 2002 Magnum 150cl

    The Champagne Brut Oenothèque 2002 in magnum of the House CASTELNAU is issued from a great vintage, under the luminous...
    284,00 €
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  • Champagne Castelnau Brut Oenothèque 1992 Magnum

    Champagne Castelnau Brut Oenothèque 1992 Magnum 150cl

    Champagne Brut œnothèque 1992 from Maison CASTELNAU is one of the vintages that marked the annals of the late twentieth century.
    337,00 €
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CASTELNAU Champagne 

HISTORY

The Champagne house of Castelnau was founded in 1916 and named in honour of General Eduard de Curières de Castelnau. It swiftly made its reputation during the First World War. Champagne Castelnau’s house emblem (the thistles and the coat of arms carry the motto “qui s’y frotte s’y pique”…he who rubs will be pricked) allude to this historical reference.
For three generations since 1925, Champagne Castelnau belonged to a family from Epernay. By the 1930’s, Castelnau Champagne had become very fashionable and was to remain a favourite of royal families and the majority of the French army throughout the world for much of the 20th century. Meanwhile, in 1962, 12 growers decided to pool their knowledge, experience and resources to create a new cellar in Reims: la Co-opérative Régionale des Vins de Champagne which acquired Champagne Castelnau in 2003. Today the company draws its fruit from one of the largest vineyard bases in the Champagne region and has positioned the Champagne Castelnau label as its figurehead..

THE VINEYARDS

Champagne Castelnau vines cover nearly 900 hectares spread across 149 different Champagne Crus including many of the finest parcels of land in the region.
• The Montagne de Reims (département de la Marne): its hillsides are largely formed of deep chalk subsoil and are mainly planted with Pinot Noir.
• The Marne Valley (Marne, Aisne et Seine-et-Marne): the slopes are mainly clay/limestone with some marl and are usually planted with Pinot Meunier.
• The Côte des Blancs (Marne): here, only Chardonnay is planted on the ubiquitous outcrops of chalk that hold reserves of water and warmth to help ripen the fruit.
• The vineyards of the Aube, Bar-sur-Aube and Bar-sur-Seine (Aube and Haute-Marne): also known as the Côte des Bar, are mainly planted with Pinot Noir on mostly marl sub-soils.
This rich panoply of fruit styles and origins gives Champagne Castelnau a stunning opportunity to use all their native knowledge to create exceptional wines.

THE GRAPE VARIETIES

The diversity of grape types and parcels of land spread throughout the AOC region of Champagne’s different sub-districts is a major advantage for Castelnau’s winemaking teams.


• Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir is the main grape type from the cooler, chalky soils of the Montagne de Reims and from the Côtes des Bar. Pinot Noir based wines show red fruit aromas and a distinct ability to bring body and power to a blend.
• Pinot Meunier
The Pinot Meunier vine is a vigorous plant especially well suited to the more clay-based vineyards of the Marne valley, giving suppler, more rounded wines that mature more quickly, bringing the blends forward.
• Chardonnay
Chardonnay, the vine of choice for the Côte des Blancs growers as well as certain other specific villages, contributes lifted, delicate, floral, citrussy scents often along with mineral notes. Maturing more slowly, this is the ideal grape for wines destined for ageing.

WINEMAKING

In Champagne, the vintage usually begins in September. After a year of careful cultivation, the fruit is hand-harvested and pressed on site to conserve as much of its freshness as possible.
The grape juice, also known here as must, used to make the Castelnau Cuvées comes from 149 villages (or Crus) and 180 pressing stations sited all over the AOC Champagne region. When it arrives at the cellars in Reims, each batch of juice is tasted and analysed before being sent to the fermentation tanks. The yeasts transform the grape sugars into alcohol to make still wines. Each grape type from each different village Cru is vinified separately to keep its character intact for the chief winemaker and his team to taste and evaluate to build their blends.
Bringing out the individual characteristics of each ferment while ensuring that they will contribute to the typicity of the finished Castelnau blends: this is the potential offered by this vital stage of the process, allowing each parcel of land, grape type and vintage to create the same great marriage of flavour even though the proportions of each wine in a Cuvée may vary from year to year. Once the blends are made, the wines can be bottled and laid down in our cellars for several years to ferment and mature until they each develop their full richness and complexity of flavour.

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