Champagne Ruppert Leroy Martin Fontaine 2018

Founded in 2010 by Emmanuel and Bénédicte Leroy, domaine Ruppert-Leroy champagnes reflect specific terroirs. Every cuvee comes from a single year, a single parcel and always without dosage. Manu and Béné (ex-high-level kayakers and PE teachers) shared a passion for wine well before making their own – they regularly visited the Jura at a time when it only took a knock at the door to meet and taste with Pierre Overnoy.

When Béné’s father Gérard Ruppert, a visionary farmer and organic vine-grower in the south-eastern corner of the Côte des Bar, offered his daughter the opportunity to take over, she did not take much convincing and jumped at the chance. Grapes were no longer sold to the négoce and the first bottling of Ruppert-Leroy came to life.

The husband and wife practise biodynamic viticulture in a selection of superb high-altitude terroirs near Essoyes, arguably the most bio-diverse and remote area in the Aube region where stunning coteaux, dense forest and pastures are intertwined. The domaine has four parcels, and each one is bottled separately each year as a single-vintage wine: Martin-Fontaine (100% Chardonnay), Les Cognaux (100% Pinot Noir), Fosse-Grely (50% Pinot Noir, 50% Chardonnay), and Papillon (100% Pinot Noir).

Made from low yields of meticulously sorted grapes, they are vinified with natural yeasts, without fining or filtration, aged in older oak, bottled off with a low 22g/l for the secondary fermentation and disgorged with no dosage. No sulphur is added at any stage. Their wines are intensely pure, harmonious, well-sculpted champagnes and their incredible energy reflect on the duo's dedication and sheer passion.

If there is any place in the Aube that is best suited for the “Burgundy with bubbles” philosophy of the region’s best growers, it is here. And that ethos is exemplified by the striking terroir expression of Ruppert-Leroy’s cuvées.

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