EMILIEN FENEUIL Cuvée Totum 2019 Blanc de Blancs 1er Cru Champagne Extra Brut 75cl White - 2Sem 2024

Grape variety: 100% Chardonnay

Style: Blanc de Blancs, Premier Cru, 2019 vintage
Disgorged on 4 July 2022,
Zero dosage (6 g/L residual sugars)

Terroir: Clay-limestone and sandy soils

🍷 Serving temperature: 10-12°C

Émilien’s thoughts on the 2020 vintage:
“Clearly structured for ageing. Don’t hesitate to use a decanter—or at least give it time. It’s neither especially sunny nor especially cool; I’d say it plays on both ‘temperatures’, something I feel as much in the textures as in the aromatic evolution. Often vertical (without being austere) on opening. I insist, as always, but with some vintages like this one more than others, you gain so much by letting it breathe.”

I’ll leave you to enjoy the lyricism of Émilien’s poetic text describing his approach:

“I am proud to be a winemaker.

To work with this vine that pierces through rock,
capable of creating its own soil within stone.

This powerful plant,
both highly resilient and yet extremely sensitive,
has always shared an intimate bond with people
wherever it has taken root.

I love the relationship
between its cultivation
and nature.

Deeply rooted, it twists and turns- 
talkative, inquisitive, exploratory.

With its head in the stars,
the vine allows me to keep my feet on the ground.
To make the invisible perceptible.

Earth or art?
Terroir!”