Adrien Renoir : Les Années Solera Grand Cru

A Blanc de Noirs Champagne from Verzy Grand Cru, Produced from a Solera

The estate

The Adrien Renoir estate is based in Verzy, on the Montagne de Reims. The family has cultivated vines here for several generations, for a long time under the name Champagne Vincent Renoir. Adrien Renoir, from the fourth generation, now heads the estate. The estate is certified organic and works with indigenous yeasts and oak ageing.

The vineyard

This cuvée comes exclusively from Verzy, a Grand Cru village located on the northern arc of the Montagne de Reims. The clay-limestone soils, often silty, rest on a chalk subsoil. This substrate is associated with the saline tension and minerality of the cuvées from this Champagne village. The Pinot Noir vines benefit from natural grass cover. They are farmed organically, with manual work and shallow soil tillage.

Vinification and ageing

Les Années Solera Grand Cru is based on a perpetual ageing system, rare in Champagne. The estate ferments its wines with indigenous yeasts. It ages them mainly in oak barrels and foudres, generally aromatically neutral, on fine lees.

Grape variety

Les Années Solera Grand Cru by Adrien Renoir is 100% Pinot Noir.