CHAMPAGNE : LA SELECTION

Go into Premier Grand Vin this year. Maison Gamet is a story of back and forth between 2 Champagne villages: Mardeuil and Fleury-la-Rivière. François Gamet, originally from Fleury-la-Rivière, descends from his native village to go and help his grandmother, Victoire, on the Mardeuil farm. He stays there to work and start his family!
Philippe, his son, goes back to Fleury-la-Rivière to meet his future wife Fabienne, also from a family of winegrowers. François, the paternal father, and Robert, the maternal father, work hard because the work of the vines is done in all weathers and mainly manually, with rudimentary tools. Philippe quickly joined his father after a few years of study at the Avize Wine Lyceum and also set out to clear new vineyard land on the steep hillsides of Fleury-la-Rivière. At the same time, he continues to look after agricultural land in cereal production. In 1992, Fabienne and Philippe founded their own estate together with family property but also with the purchase of several plots of vines.
The vines (between 25 and 45 years old, clay-limestone soil) are planted in three villages: Mardeuil, Damery and Fleury-la-Rivière mainly in Pinot Meunier (55%) and Pinot Noir (35%), some vines in Chardonnay ( 10%). The grounds are worked mechanically and one limits the treatments. The majority of the vines are grassed. The harvest is manual and 85,000 bottles produced each year. Marianne (the girl) is fully involved in the field.
The year 2020 marks a renewal for the Gamet family, new skins, a more unique identity, and products like Ratafia brought up to date with the desire to democratize it on the scene of mixology.
HVE and Sustainable Viticulture in Champagne since 2019.
“This 2019 harvest represents a good year, we harvested late, it was voluntary. We started on September 16 which is quite late in the Marne Valley. We were able to wait for maturity. After a hot summer, we had a saving rain which allowed us to obtain good acidities. At the tasting, the clear wines are warm, vinous.
For sale, our 2013 vintage: blend of 3 grape varieties, 0 dosage. The vintage can thus be fully expressed, a very distinguished Champagne.
Ratafia de Saignée 100% Pinot Noir, this is a novelty, in order to highlight the grapes of the Marne Valley.
We are changing the look of our range as well as the names of certain vintages, such as the 5000 brut selection B from N). ”
Very nice tasting with this brut brut Nature Millésime 2012, 35% Pinot Noir, 35% Chardonnay, 30% Meunier, it is particularly successful, with an almond nose, all in fruit, a fine and fresh cuvée in the mouth, combining persistence and richness, beautiful pale gold color. The 2013 vintage follows.
They can also be proud of their Champagne brut cuvée Rive Gauche, the name of this cuvée refers to the terroir of Mardeuil, located to the left of the Marne, where 1/3 of the House's vineyard is located. Powerful in the mouth but very elegant, a lively, mineral and floral Champagne with aromas of white peach, mango, vegetable note and hawthorn flowers.
Extra brut Caractères, Pinot Noir, Meunier and Chardonnay, 80% reserve wines (including 15 different hence the name of this cuvée “Caractères”) and 20% wines of the year delicate and refined where the Meunier expresses itself particularly well, notes of candied fruit, mirabelle plum. Beautiful evolution in oak barrels which gives it aromas of honey, brioche, beautiful complexity, persistent finish with peppery, vanilla, chocolate and roasted almond notes.
Always tasty Rive Droite brut, 60% Meunier and 40% Pinot Noir from the 2016 harvest and 45% reserve wines. A fresh wine carried by the fruit of the Meunier on aromas of raspberry, blackcurrant and wild blackberry, to be expected, for example, on a filet of Saint-Pierre poached in sauce or a simmered of veal with honey and cumin.
The brut brut rosé is a blend of 60% Meunier and 40% Pinot Noir from the 2015 harvest, 17% red wine (Meuniers from Clos des Goulots de Fleury-la-Rivière), a perfect balance between freshness and aromatic intensity, Meuniers and Pinots blacks express delicious aromas of strawberries and raspberries.
brut Rosé de Saignée, 100% Meunier from the 2014 harvest, 50 year old vines. Lively and delicious attack, nice aromatic bouquet of evolved red and black fruits (blackberry and blackcurrant) like wild strawberries and ripe raspberries.

Vineyard of 7 ha, 30 plots, an average age of the vines of 20 years. The 12th generation has the will to keep and continue the style of the house.
“Here are our Champagnes on sale during 2020, Louis Cheval-Gatinois tells us: Grand Brut Tradition, Grand Cru Réserve, Grand Cru Brut Rosé, Grand Cru Millésime 2011 and perhaps 2012 at the end of 'year.
The 2019 was a good year for the harvest, although the conditions were unusual with very dry weather but, in the end, the vines did not suffer from this drought, the maturity was faster, we find in the wines have a good balance and if the quality is excellent, the quantity is also present. It’s a great year. ”
Louis always raises this remarkable Champagne Grand Cru Brut Tradition, 80% Pinot Noir and 20% Chardonnay, a wine mixing intensity and power, of a good size, very good mouth, where we find notes of lemongrass and honey .
The superb Grand Cru Brut Réserve, 80% Pinot Noir and 20% Chardonnay, of great distinction on the nose and on the palate, remarkable for its complexity of aromas and length on the palate, on the nose of small fruits (quince, lemon) , vinous but very fine at the same time, charming, is very elegant.
Joli Grand Cru Brut rosé, 90% Pinot Noir and 10% Chardonnay, where all the fruit flavors are intertwined, of great refinement, a wine that is both powerful, mature and airy, of intense freshness like the Grand Cru Millésime 2011, 60% Pinot Noir and 40% Chardonnay, mature and sweet, it is a rich Champagne, all in finesse, with these floral and fruity notes, slightly toasted on the finish.