Adrien Dhondt 'Les Coullemets' Le Mesnil-Sur-Oger Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Extra Brut, Champagne, France 2019

“Les Coullemets” Le Mesnil‑sur‑Oger Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut 2019 is a precise, chalk‑driven Champagne that showcases the tension and elegance of Mesnil Chardonnay. The 2019 offers bright citrus, green apple, and white peach layered with crushed oyster shell, chalk, and subtle brioche. The palate is taut and mineral with fine mousse, low dosage, and a long, saline finish. Focused and incisive yet quietly powerful, it’s a beautifully terroir‑expressive Champagne that will continue to gain complexity with time in bottle.

"The 2019 Extra-Brut Blanc de Blancs Mesnil sur Oger Les Coullemets is brilliant, delivering a complex bouquet of peach, white flowers, hazelnuts and a subtle top note of acacia honey, followed by a full-bodied, satiny and layered palate that's both the most concentrated and the most tensile of these three lieu-dit bottlings. Les Coullemets is situated at the bottom of the slope, where the soils are shallower and the wines more mineral." Wine Advocate 95