Egly-Ouriet Blanc de Noirs Vieilles Vignes NV is a powerful, complex Champagne made from 100% old-vine Pinot Noir in Ambonnay. Aged over six years on lees and finished with a very low dosage, it offers deep red fruit, chalky minerality, and a long, structured finish—an exceptional expression of terroir and craftsmanship.

Decanter | D 99
Published: Champagne Grower-producers: the beginning of the end?
Drink: 2018-2023

Some in Champagne can achieve grandeur of dizzying proportions, and the most talented can summon delicacy of lightfooted grace, but no village marries the two as effortlessly as Ambonnay, and no practitioner as masterfully as Francis Egly. Vieilles Vignes is his masterpiece, succeeding in capturing the golden sunlight grandeur and chalk mineral airiness of his tiny amphitheatre shaped lieu-dit of vines planted in 1946. The essence of Pinot Noir.
Closure: Cork
Alcohol: 12.50%
Body: Medium
Grapes: 100% Pinot Noir / Pinot Nero

Winemaker

The EGLY-OURIET Champagne House, located in Ambonnay on 12 hectares, is a family house running for four generations. Small by its production (about 100 000 bottles per year), and big by the exceptional quality of its champagnes.

All the champagnes of this house spend at least 3 years in the cellar before being sold, thus increasing their complexity and ensuring a better potential of ageing.

All this care has allowed them to be placed among the ten best champagne houses. The

Champagne Grand Cru Les Crayères Blanc de Noirs Vieilles Vignes from EGLY-OURIET comes from an old pinot noir vineyard, planted in 1946, on an exceptional terroir.