2007 Champagne Egly-Ouriet Brut Grand Cru Millésime Magnum
| Type of Wine | White |
|---|---|
| Country | France |
| Region | |
| Appellation | |
| Winery | |
| Vintage | 2007 |
| Grape | , |
| Content (Alc) | 1.5 ltr (12.5%) |
| Drink window | 2021 - 2050 |
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Description
Egly-Ouriet is a family-owned champagne house with a history dating back to 1930. The estate was founded by Francis Egly in Ambonnay, a Grand Cru village in the Montagne de Reims region of Champagne, France. Ambonnay is best known for its high-quality Pinot Noirs and this grape variety has played an important role in the identity of Egly-Ouriet Champagnes. Francis Egly started the estate with a commitment to produce exceptional wines that would showcase Ambonnay's unique terroir. Over the years, the estate expanded its holdings to include vineyards in other prestigious Grand Cru villages such as Verzenay, Bouzy and Aÿ. These villages are known for their favorable conditions for viticulture, which contribute to the production of high quality grapes. The torch was passed to Francis' son, Gaston Egly, and later to Michel Egly, the founder's grandson. Michel has continued the family's commitment to crafting artisan champagnes that express the character of the terroir. Under Michel's leadership, Egly-Ouriet has gained recognition as one of the best producers in Champagne.
One of Egly-Ouriet's distinguishing features is its dedication to traditional winemaking methods. The estate places a strong emphasis on viticulture, with a focus on organic and sustainable farming practices. The grapes are harvested by hand and the winemaking process includes a soft pressing and fermentation in oak barrels. Egly-Ouriet is also known for its long aging of wines on the lees, which contributes to the complexity, richness and aging potential of their champagnes. Egly-Ouriet is celebrated for its commitment to producing wines that reflect the individuality of each vintage and vineyard plot. The house is known for its non-interventionist approach, allowing the grapes and terroir to speak for themselves in the final wines. Over the years, Egly-Ouriet has built a reputation for its exceptional Blanc de Noirs champagnes, often dominated by Pinot Noir, and its commitment to expressing the unique characteristics of the Montagne de Reims terroir.
Egly-Ouriet is known for its traditional and meticulous winemaking techniques. The estate owns and manages its vineyards, allowing control over grape quality and ensuring that the wines reflect the unique characteristics of the terroir. The vineyards are mainly located in the Grand Cru villages of Ambonnay, Verzenay, Bouzy and Aÿ, which are known for their excellent Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes. The production process involves manual harvest, soft pressing of the grapes and fermentation in oak barrels. Egly-Ouriet is known for its long aging on the lees, which contributes to the complexity and depth of their champagnes. Egly-Ouriet produces a range of cuvées, each with different grape varieties and terroirs.
The 2007 Brut Millésime Grand Cru is soft, open and quite accessible young, especially for an Egly Champagne. This is a particularly smooth and flexible Champagne. Dried pear, brioche, mint, chamomile, dried flowers and slightly honeyed notes resonate in the glass. This is a magnum version in a beautiful wooden box (OWC/1)
FACT : The wine is stored in our conditioned Wine Warehouse and if you pick up the wine you will often receive a nice discount. You will immediately see the possible discount if you choose Pickup in the Checkout page. We are almost next to the Rijksweg with plenty of parking. Click here for address.
Specifications
| Type of Wine | White |
|---|---|
| Country | France |
| Region | Champagne |
| Appellation | Champagne (Appellation) |
| Icons | Icon France |
| Winery | Egly-Ouriet |
| Grape | Chardonnay, Pinot Noir |
| Biological certified | No |
| Natural wine | No |
| Vegan | No |
| Vintage | 2007 |
| Drinking as of | 2021 |
| Drinking till | 2050 |
| Alcohol % | 12.5 |
| Alcohol free/low | No |
| Content | 1.5 ltr |
| Oak aging | Yes |
| Sparkling | Yes |
| Dessert wine | No |
| Closure | Cork |
| Parker rating | 99 |
| Vinous rating | 94 |
| Tasting Profiles | Complex, Droog, Fris, Mineraal, Strak, Wit fruit |
| Drink moments | Cadeau!, Iets te vieren, Indruk maken, Lekker luxe, Romantisch |
Professional Reviews
Parker
The Wine Advocate
RP 100
Reviewed by:
William Kelley
Release Price:
NA
Drink Date:
2023 - 2048
Revisited from the July 2019 disgorgement, Egly's 2008 Brut Grand Cru Millésime was showing as brilliantly as ever. The wine seemed to shut down a little in early 2020, but it is already beginning to unwind, and this was the most expressive bottle that I've drunk to date. Offering up an incipiently complex bouquet of orchard fruit, citrus oil, pralines and freshly baked bread, now complemented by hints of iodine, clear honey and mirabelle plum, it's full-bodied, deep and layered, with immense depth and concentration, racy acids and elegantly muscular structuring dry extract. Long and penetrating, as I've written before, this wine is a monument to what Champagne's grower revolution has achieved over the last 30 or so years.
As I wrote earlier this year, far from resting on the considerable and merited laurels that he has accrued over a 30-year career, Francis Egly continues to refine and improve. The latest innovations include refrigerated press pans to immediately cool the must in ever-warmer vintages, a peristaltic pump to handle his wines even more gently and a once-again expanded cellar that gives him the space to work still more precisely. Just like his work in the vineyards, investment in the winery has been incessant. Starting from next to nothing when he began in the 1980s, today Egly holds the equivalent of some 700,000 bottles in reserve wines and wine maturing sur lattes—equivalent to seven times his annual production. His 2008 Vintage, one of the most extraordinary young Champagnes that I've ever tasted, is only just being disgorged this year. As readers will know, Egly picks ripe grapes and ferments most of his wines in barrel—some 10% to 15% of which are renewed every year, and all of which derive from the cooperage of his friend, Dominique Laurent—before subjecting them to lengthy sur lattes maturation, typically disgorging with around three grams per liter dosage. But the devil is in the details: no winemaker in Champagne is more precise or meticulous, from vineyard to cellar. I drink Egly-Ouriet very regularly indeed—the Extra Brut V.P. is one of my house wines—and I continue to be amazed at the reasonable tariff such artisanal craftsmanship commands in a region where those qualities remain hard to come by. While the quality of Egly's wines is an open secret at this stage, I believe that his latest releases number among his best to date. I warmly encourage readers to acquaint—or reacquaint—themselves with them.
While my planned spring visit to Egly-Ouriet—which would have issued in a historical feature on this reference-point producer—will have to wait until France returns to normality, or something like it, I was able to taste all of Egly's new disgorgements as usual. Everything here comes warmly recommended.
Published: Apr 30, 2021
The Wine Advocate
RP 94
Reviewed by:
Stephan Reinhardt
Release Price:
NA
Drink Date:
2016 - 2030
The 2006 Brut Millésime Grand Cru is a really rich and intense, yet also a pure and fresh cuvée based on 60/70% barrel-fermented Pinot Noir and 30/40% barrel-fermented Chardonnay. It is a full-bodied, concentrated and extremely well-structured cuvée with a grippy, long and persistent finish. The dosage is two grams per liter. There are lovely fresh berry flavors on the nose.
I met Francis Egly on his domaine in Ambonnay in March this year and was blown away by the quality of the 2014 and 2015 red wine candidates for the Ambonnay Rouge Cuvée des Grands Côtés, a Côteaux Champenois made from old vine Pinot Noir. Dark, ripe and seductive, this is probably one of the finest red wines of the region, and although I can't read my detailed tasting note anymore, readers shouldn't miss it—start with the pure and fresh 2013, which is in the market today.
Needless to say that Egly-Ouriet's Blanc de Noirs remain outstanding in their freshness, finesse and complexity. The growing domaine farms 12 hectares, largely in Ambonnay, but also in Verzenay, Vrigny and Bouzy. All the wines are fermented with natural yeasts in barrels. The malolactic fermentation is blocked to maintain the freshness, which is one of the characteristic features in the terroir-driven Egly-Ouriet portfolio. All of the wines are bottled unfiltered ("since 20 years") and disgorged after four to six years as Brut or as Extra Brut. (Note that this is only a question of declaration rather than analysis, since also the bruts are dosed with only two or three grams per liter.)
The old vine Pinot Meunier "Les Vignes de Vrigny" is remarkably fine and will gain complexity over the years in the bottle. The famous Blanc de Noirs "Les Crayères" is an exceptional single vineyard Pinot Noir Grand Cru from Ambonnay, whereas the Brut Tradition and the Brut Rosé are really good values.
Published: Jun 30, 2016
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Vinous
94
Drinking Window
2018 - 2028
From: Champagne: The 2018 Summer Preview (Jul 2018)
The 2007 Brut Millésime Grand Cru is soft, open-knit and quite approachable young, especially for an Egly Champagne. This is an especially pliant, supple Champagne. Dried pear, brioche, mint, chamomile, dried flowers and lightly honeyed notes resonate in the glass. In 2007, the Millésime is 100% Ambonnay fruit. Today, the 2007 gives the impression that it will drink at its best over the near and medium-term, but not necessarily beyond that.
- By Antonio Galloni on March 2018
This is a very strong set of new releases from Francis Egly. It’s easy in this range to focus on the higher-end wines, and that is certainly understandable given their quality, but this year I was quite taken by the NV Brut Tradition and NV Brut Rosé Grand Cru, which benefit from the richness of the 2012 vintage that is at the heart of both wines. As I have noted in previous reports, the Egly-Ouriet Champagnes are rich and vinous in style, but done with an approach that offers more freshness than in the past.
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Egly-Ouriet is a Champagne producer based in the Montagne de Reims. Due to its great quality, it has nestled among the largest and best Champagne houses in the region in recent years.
History of Egly-Ouriet
Egly-Ouriet is a family-owned champagne house with a history dating back to 1930. The estate was founded by Francis Egly in Ambonnay, a Grand Cru village in the Montagne de Reims region of Champagne, France. Ambonnay is best known for its high-quality Pinot Noirs and this grape variety has played an important role in the identity of Egly-Ouriet Champagnes. Francis Egly started the estate with a commitment to produce exceptional wines that would showcase Ambonnay's unique terroir. Over the years, the estate expanded its holdings to include vineyards in other prestigious Grand Cru villages such as Verzenay, Bouzy and Aÿ. These villages are known for their favorable conditions for viticulture, which contribute to the production of high quality grapes. The torch was passed to Francis' son, Gaston Egly, and later to Michel Egly, the founder's grandson. Michel has continued the family's commitment to crafting artisan champagnes that express the character of the terroir. Under Michel's leadership, Egly-Ouriet has gained recognition as one of the best producers in Champagne.
One of Egly-Ouriet's distinguishing features is its dedication to traditional winemaking methods. The estate places a strong emphasis on viticulture, with a focus on organic and sustainable farming practices. The grapes are harvested by hand and the winemaking process includes a soft pressing and fermentation in oak barrels. Egly-Ouriet is also known for its long aging of wines on the lees, which contributes to the complexity, richness and aging potential of their champagnes. Egly-Ouriet is celebrated for its commitment to producing wines that reflect the individuality of each vintage and vineyard plot. The house is known for its non-interventionist approach, allowing the grapes and terroir to speak for themselves in the final wines. Over the years, Egly-Ouriet has built a reputation for its exceptional Blanc de Noirs champagnes, often dominated by Pinot Noir, and its commitment to expressing the unique characteristics of the Montagne de Reims terroir.
Production of Egly-Ouriet
Egly-Ouriet is known for its traditional and meticulous winemaking techniques. The estate owns and manages its vineyards, allowing control over grape quality and ensuring that the wines reflect the unique characteristics of the terroir. The vineyards are mainly located in the Grand Cru villages of Ambonnay, Verzenay, Bouzy and Aÿ, which are known for their excellent Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes.
The production process involves manual harvest, soft pressing of the grapes and fermentation in oak barrels. Egly-Ouriet is known for its long aging on the lees, which contributes to the complexity and depth of their champagnes. Egly-Ouriet produces a range of cuvées, each with different grape varieties and terroirs.
Egly-Ouriet is a family-owned champagne house with a history dating back to 1930. The estate was founded by Francis Egly in Ambonnay, a Grand Cru village in the Montagne de Reims region of Champagne, France. Ambonnay is best known for its high-quality Pinot Noirs and this grape variety has played an important role in the identity of Egly-Ouriet Champagnes. Francis Egly started the estate with a commitment to produce exceptional wines that would showcase Ambonnay's unique terroir. Over the years, the estate expanded its holdings to include vineyards in other prestigious Grand Cru villages such as Verzenay, Bouzy and Aÿ. These villages are known for their favorable conditions for viticulture, which contribute to the production of high quality grapes. The torch was passed to Francis' son, Gaston Egly, and later to Michel Egly, the founder's grandson. Michel has continued the family's commitment to crafting artisan champagnes that express the character of the terroir. Under Michel's leadership, Egly-Ouriet has gained recognition as one of the best producers in Champagne.
One of Egly-Ouriet's distinguishing features is its dedication to traditional winemaking methods. The estate places a strong emphasis on viticulture, with a focus on organic and sustainable farming practices. The grapes are harvested by hand and the winemaking process includes a soft pressing and fermentation in oak barrels. Egly-Ouriet is also known for its long aging of wines on the lees, which contributes to the complexity, richness and aging potential of their champagnes. Egly-Ouriet is celebrated for its commitment to producing wines that reflect the individuality of each vintage and vineyard plot. The house is known for its non-interventionist approach, allowing the grapes and terroir to speak for themselves in the final wines. Over the years, Egly-Ouriet has built a reputation for its exceptional Blanc de Noirs champagnes, often dominated by Pinot Noir, and its commitment to expressing the unique characteristics of the Montagne de Reims terroir.
Egly-Ouriet is known for its traditional and meticulous winemaking techniques. The estate owns and manages its vineyards, allowing control over grape quality and ensuring that the wines reflect the unique characteristics of the terroir. The vineyards are mainly located in the Grand Cru villages of Ambonnay, Verzenay, Bouzy and Aÿ, which are known for their excellent Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes. The production process involves manual harvest, soft pressing of the grapes and fermentation in oak barrels. Egly-Ouriet is known for its long aging on the lees, which contributes to the complexity and depth of their champagnes. Egly-Ouriet produces a range of cuvées, each with different grape varieties and terroirs.
The 2007 Brut Millésime Grand Cru is soft, open and quite accessible young, especially for an Egly Champagne. This is a particularly smooth and flexible Champagne. Dried pear, brioche, mint, chamomile, dried flowers and slightly honeyed notes resonate in the glass. This is a magnum version in a beautiful wooden box (OWC/1)
FACT : The wine is stored in our conditioned Wine Warehouse and if you pick up the wine you will often receive a nice discount. You will immediately see the possible discount if you choose Pickup in the Checkout page. We are almost next to the Rijksweg with plenty of parking. Click here for address.
| Type of Wine | White |
|---|---|
| Country | France |
| Region | Champagne |
| Appellation | Champagne (Appellation) |
| Icons | Icon France |
| Winery | Egly-Ouriet |
| Grape | Chardonnay, Pinot Noir |
| Biological certified | No |
| Natural wine | No |
| Vegan | No |
| Vintage | 2007 |
| Drinking as of | 2021 |
| Drinking till | 2050 |
| Alcohol % | 12.5 |
| Alcohol free/low | No |
| Content | 1.5 ltr |
| Oak aging | Yes |
| Sparkling | Yes |
| Dessert wine | No |
| Closure | Cork |
| Parker rating | 99 |
| Vinous rating | 94 |
| Tasting Profiles | Complex, Droog, Fris, Mineraal, Strak, Wit fruit |
| Drink moments | Cadeau!, Iets te vieren, Indruk maken, Lekker luxe, Romantisch |
Parker
The Wine Advocate
RP 100
Reviewed by:
William Kelley
Release Price:
NA
Drink Date:
2023 - 2048
Revisited from the July 2019 disgorgement, Egly's 2008 Brut Grand Cru Millésime was showing as brilliantly as ever. The wine seemed to shut down a little in early 2020, but it is already beginning to unwind, and this was the most expressive bottle that I've drunk to date. Offering up an incipiently complex bouquet of orchard fruit, citrus oil, pralines and freshly baked bread, now complemented by hints of iodine, clear honey and mirabelle plum, it's full-bodied, deep and layered, with immense depth and concentration, racy acids and elegantly muscular structuring dry extract. Long and penetrating, as I've written before, this wine is a monument to what Champagne's grower revolution has achieved over the last 30 or so years.
As I wrote earlier this year, far from resting on the considerable and merited laurels that he has accrued over a 30-year career, Francis Egly continues to refine and improve. The latest innovations include refrigerated press pans to immediately cool the must in ever-warmer vintages, a peristaltic pump to handle his wines even more gently and a once-again expanded cellar that gives him the space to work still more precisely. Just like his work in the vineyards, investment in the winery has been incessant. Starting from next to nothing when he began in the 1980s, today Egly holds the equivalent of some 700,000 bottles in reserve wines and wine maturing sur lattes—equivalent to seven times his annual production. His 2008 Vintage, one of the most extraordinary young Champagnes that I've ever tasted, is only just being disgorged this year. As readers will know, Egly picks ripe grapes and ferments most of his wines in barrel—some 10% to 15% of which are renewed every year, and all of which derive from the cooperage of his friend, Dominique Laurent—before subjecting them to lengthy sur lattes maturation, typically disgorging with around three grams per liter dosage. But the devil is in the details: no winemaker in Champagne is more precise or meticulous, from vineyard to cellar. I drink Egly-Ouriet very regularly indeed—the Extra Brut V.P. is one of my house wines—and I continue to be amazed at the reasonable tariff such artisanal craftsmanship commands in a region where those qualities remain hard to come by. While the quality of Egly's wines is an open secret at this stage, I believe that his latest releases number among his best to date. I warmly encourage readers to acquaint—or reacquaint—themselves with them.
While my planned spring visit to Egly-Ouriet—which would have issued in a historical feature on this reference-point producer—will have to wait until France returns to normality, or something like it, I was able to taste all of Egly's new disgorgements as usual. Everything here comes warmly recommended.
Published: Apr 30, 2021
The Wine Advocate
RP 94
Reviewed by:
Stephan Reinhardt
Release Price:
NA
Drink Date:
2016 - 2030
The 2006 Brut Millésime Grand Cru is a really rich and intense, yet also a pure and fresh cuvée based on 60/70% barrel-fermented Pinot Noir and 30/40% barrel-fermented Chardonnay. It is a full-bodied, concentrated and extremely well-structured cuvée with a grippy, long and persistent finish. The dosage is two grams per liter. There are lovely fresh berry flavors on the nose.
I met Francis Egly on his domaine in Ambonnay in March this year and was blown away by the quality of the 2014 and 2015 red wine candidates for the Ambonnay Rouge Cuvée des Grands Côtés, a Côteaux Champenois made from old vine Pinot Noir. Dark, ripe and seductive, this is probably one of the finest red wines of the region, and although I can't read my detailed tasting note anymore, readers shouldn't miss it—start with the pure and fresh 2013, which is in the market today.
Needless to say that Egly-Ouriet's Blanc de Noirs remain outstanding in their freshness, finesse and complexity. The growing domaine farms 12 hectares, largely in Ambonnay, but also in Verzenay, Vrigny and Bouzy. All the wines are fermented with natural yeasts in barrels. The malolactic fermentation is blocked to maintain the freshness, which is one of the characteristic features in the terroir-driven Egly-Ouriet portfolio. All of the wines are bottled unfiltered ("since 20 years") and disgorged after four to six years as Brut or as Extra Brut. (Note that this is only a question of declaration rather than analysis, since also the bruts are dosed with only two or three grams per liter.)
The old vine Pinot Meunier "Les Vignes de Vrigny" is remarkably fine and will gain complexity over the years in the bottle. The famous Blanc de Noirs "Les Crayères" is an exceptional single vineyard Pinot Noir Grand Cru from Ambonnay, whereas the Brut Tradition and the Brut Rosé are really good values.
Published: Jun 30, 2016
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Vinous
94
Drinking Window
2018 - 2028
From: Champagne: The 2018 Summer Preview (Jul 2018)
The 2007 Brut Millésime Grand Cru is soft, open-knit and quite approachable young, especially for an Egly Champagne. This is an especially pliant, supple Champagne. Dried pear, brioche, mint, chamomile, dried flowers and lightly honeyed notes resonate in the glass. In 2007, the Millésime is 100% Ambonnay fruit. Today, the 2007 gives the impression that it will drink at its best over the near and medium-term, but not necessarily beyond that.
- By Antonio Galloni on March 2018
This is a very strong set of new releases from Francis Egly. It’s easy in this range to focus on the higher-end wines, and that is certainly understandable given their quality, but this year I was quite taken by the NV Brut Tradition and NV Brut Rosé Grand Cru, which benefit from the richness of the 2012 vintage that is at the heart of both wines. As I have noted in previous reports, the Egly-Ouriet Champagnes are rich and vinous in style, but done with an approach that offers more freshness than in the past.
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Egly-Ouriet is a Champagne producer based in the Montagne de Reims. Due to its great quality, it has nestled among the largest and best Champagne houses in the region in recent years.
History of Egly-Ouriet
Egly-Ouriet is a family-owned champagne house with a history dating back to 1930. The estate was founded by Francis Egly in Ambonnay, a Grand Cru village in the Montagne de Reims region of Champagne, France. Ambonnay is best known for its high-quality Pinot Noirs and this grape variety has played an important role in the identity of Egly-Ouriet Champagnes. Francis Egly started the estate with a commitment to produce exceptional wines that would showcase Ambonnay's unique terroir. Over the years, the estate expanded its holdings to include vineyards in other prestigious Grand Cru villages such as Verzenay, Bouzy and Aÿ. These villages are known for their favorable conditions for viticulture, which contribute to the production of high quality grapes. The torch was passed to Francis' son, Gaston Egly, and later to Michel Egly, the founder's grandson. Michel has continued the family's commitment to crafting artisan champagnes that express the character of the terroir. Under Michel's leadership, Egly-Ouriet has gained recognition as one of the best producers in Champagne.
One of Egly-Ouriet's distinguishing features is its dedication to traditional winemaking methods. The estate places a strong emphasis on viticulture, with a focus on organic and sustainable farming practices. The grapes are harvested by hand and the winemaking process includes a soft pressing and fermentation in oak barrels. Egly-Ouriet is also known for its long aging of wines on the lees, which contributes to the complexity, richness and aging potential of their champagnes. Egly-Ouriet is celebrated for its commitment to producing wines that reflect the individuality of each vintage and vineyard plot. The house is known for its non-interventionist approach, allowing the grapes and terroir to speak for themselves in the final wines. Over the years, Egly-Ouriet has built a reputation for its exceptional Blanc de Noirs champagnes, often dominated by Pinot Noir, and its commitment to expressing the unique characteristics of the Montagne de Reims terroir.
Production of Egly-Ouriet
Egly-Ouriet is known for its traditional and meticulous winemaking techniques. The estate owns and manages its vineyards, allowing control over grape quality and ensuring that the wines reflect the unique characteristics of the terroir. The vineyards are mainly located in the Grand Cru villages of Ambonnay, Verzenay, Bouzy and Aÿ, which are known for their excellent Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes.
The production process involves manual harvest, soft pressing of the grapes and fermentation in oak barrels. Egly-Ouriet is known for its long aging on the lees, which contributes to the complexity and depth of their champagnes. Egly-Ouriet produces a range of cuvées, each with different grape varieties and terroirs.