Champagne Jacquesson, "Dizy" Terres Rouges, Rose Extra Brut, 2011, gift box, 1.5 L
Tasting Notes
Wine brilliant red cherry color with garnet color and a beautiful persistent perlyazhem.
Elegant wine charms perfectly balanced, structured, soft, clean, good length flavor with notes of dried rose petals, pomegranate, sweet spices, mint and tobacco.
Fruity flavor of the wine reveals notes of candied cherries, strawberries and raspberries.
Champagne is not only an excellent aperitif, but also an excellent accompaniment for woodcock, quail, ducks and other game birds, as well as seafood, eggs and fruit and berry desserts.
Interesting Facts
"Dizy" Terres Rouges, Rose Extra Brut - the perfect terroir Champagne, whose name translates as "Red Earth". Indeed, vineyard, berry from which the wine is wonderful, located near the village of Disi on a hillside covered with soil red-brown. 6 hectares of vineyard in equal proportions planted with vines Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier. This terroir is under severe climatic conditions, the annual average temperature is only 10 ° C, so the vines require greater attention and care. In the production of "Dizzy" Terre Rouge Pinot Noir grapes for several tens of hours was macerated in contact with the grape skins. Initial fermentation step occurs in stainless steel vats. Vintage 2008 is best to use in the period from 2014 to 2018.
History of the Zhakson based Zhaksonom Claude and his son Memmi, began in 1798. Success accompanied the first years of wine production. Fan of the brand Zhakson was Napoleon, who visited Champagne house in 1809, and in 1810 was awarded a gold medal home for quality. For his wedding to Grand Duchess Marie-Louise of Austria, Napoleon acquired the House Zhakson solid batch of champagne. In 1835, Adolf Zhakson headed the firm and spent drastic changes to improve and expand production. It was he who invented the muzzle - bridle wire to secure the cork in the bottle of champagne, which is patented in 1844. By the end of XIX century house Zhakson produced about 1 million. Bottles a year, but after the death of Adolf family showed little interest in winemaking.
In 1974, the family bought a house Chic Zhakson in the property and made a number of improvements to the process of wine production, as well as improved processing system vineyards. Today House Zhakson owns 30 hectares of vineyards located in the municipalities of Grand and Premiers Crus: Oville, Deasy, advices and Au. Also, the economy further buys grapes grown in several communes Grand Cru: Verzenay, maypole, Shuyi, Maya and Sillery. Family Chic restore the glory of the brand Jacquesson, which is now synonymous with champagne wines of the highest quality.
