Champagne Castelnau has been making exceptional champagnes much loved by discerning wine lovers since 1916. The champagne house belong to the Regional Cooperative of Champagnes wines since 2003, and De Castelnau is their emblematic brand. It is one of the largest vineyard in Champagne (almost 900 hectares of vine located among the greatest terroirs of Champagne). Now you too can discover a great name in Champagne.
Blending is fundamental to the production of any Champagne and totally dependent on the skills and experience of the chief winemaker and his team.
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Champagne Brut Réserve from De Castelnau is a wine elaborated from a blend composed of 40% Chardonnay, 20% Pinot Noir, and 40% Pinot Meunier.
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Cuvée Brut Rosé from De Castelnau is a wine elaborated from a blend composed of 35% Chardonnay, 14% Pinot Noir, 51% Pinot Meunier and 10% of Pinot vinified in red wine which contains 20% of reserved wine.
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Cuvée Extra-Brut from Maison CASTELNAU recalls gourmandise and authenticity in its extra-brut declination.
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Cuvée Blanc de Blancs 2006 from Maison Castelnau represents the sacred alliance of elegance and power.
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Champagne Brut vintage 2006 from Maison CASTELNAU is elaborated from a blend composed of 50% Chardonnay, 30% Pinot Noir and 20% Pinot Meunier.
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The Brut 2003 champagne from Maison CASTELNAU has aged for more than 10 years to offer remarkable aromatic depth.
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Cuvée HORS CATEGORIE is so named to demonstrate Champagne de Castelnau's absolute mastery of the heights to which great Champagnes can rise.
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Champagne Brut œnothèque 1996 in magnum from Maison CASTELNAU is elaborated from an exceptional vintage.
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Champagne Brut Vintage 2004 from De Castelnau is elaborated from a blend made of 50% Chardonnay (with a great aging potential, thanks to the full chalk soils), 33% of Pinot Noir and 17% of Pinot Meunier.
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What a beautiful harmony between the Côte des Blancs’ Chardonnay and the one from the Montagne de Reims !Champagne Blanc de Blancs 2004 from De Castelnau has a gorgeous golden colour.
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With a huge proportion of Chardonnay (61%), Cuvée Spéciale 2002 truly reflects its grape variety (only 23% of Pinot noir and 16% Pinot Meunier !).
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Cuvée Blanc de Blancs 2005 from Maison Castelnau is characterized by a subtle balance between power and delicate aromas.
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Discover here the Cuvée de Prestige in magnum !
With a huge proportion of Chardonnay (61%), Cuvée Spéciale 2002 truly reflects its grape variety (only 23% of Pinot noir and 16% Pinot Meunier !).
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Champagne Brut œnothèque 1995 from Maison CASTELNAU belongs to the greatest Chardonnay vintages of the 20th century.
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This magnum of champagne Brut Réserve from De Castelnau is a wine elaborated from a blend composed of 40% Chardonnay, 20% Pinot Noir, and 40% Pinot Meunier.
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Champagne Brut œnothèque 1998 from Maison CASTELNAU is one of the vintages that marked the annals of the late twentieth century.
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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..
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 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 NoirPinot 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 MeunierThe 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.• ChardonnayChardonnay, 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.
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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Champagne Castelnau has been making exceptional champagnes much loved by discerning wine lovers since 1916. The champagne house belong to the Regional Cooperative of Champagnes wines since 2003, and De Castelnau is their emblematic brand. It is one of the largest vineyard in Champagne (almost 900 hectares of vine located among the greatest terroirs of Champagne). Now you too can discover a great name in Champagne.