Lombard Brut Nature Chouilly Grand Cru 750ml

Lombard Brut Nature Chouilly Grand Cru 750ml is a single-village Blanc de Blancs Champagne from Champagne Lombard in Épernay, made from Chardonnay grown in the Grand Cru village of Chouilly. It has zero dosage and is 12.5% ABV.

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Lombard is a family house founded in Épernay in 1925, and its range is built around single-cru and plot-based Champagnes from Premier and Grand Cru villages. This cuvée sits in Lombard’s Terroir range. Chouilly lies at the northern end of the Côte des Blancs, where chalk and clay soils give Chardonnay a rounder, fuller shape alongside its minerality.

The wine spends more than 48 months in Lombard’s cellars before release. With no sugar added at disgorgement, there is nothing to mask the fruit, so the character of the village comes through clearly in a dry, clean finish.

Lombard’s Terroir range lets you compare Chardonnay from different Grand Cru villages made the same way, so this bottle is a good place to start for anyone curious about how place changes Champagne. Chouilly tends to give a rounder, more generous style than the tense, chalky wines of villages further south on the Côte des Blancs. It suits drinkers who enjoy bone-dry Champagne and the purity of Blanc de Blancs.

Serve at 8 to 10°C in a white wine glass rather than a narrow flute, so the aromas can open. A zero dosage Chardonnay Champagne like this is made for briny seafood: try oysters, pipi, scallop crudo or simple grilled fish with lemon. It will keep for a few years lying down somewhere cool and dark.