Egly-Ouriet - Coteaux Champenois Ambonnay Red 2023

Grape

100% Pinot Noir

Tasting notes

The 2023 Egly-Ouriet Coteaux Champenois Ambonnay Rouge "Cuvée des Grands Côtés" is a rare, 100% Pinot Noir still red wine from old Grand Cru vines, opening with expressive aromas of wild raspberry, red cherry, minerals, and light spice. The palate is silky yet structured, offering vibrant red berry fruit and a long, saline, chalky finish.

Bright, transparent ruby-red. The aromas show wild strawberries, raspberries, red cherries, wildflowers, and subtle stony minerality, with hints of delicate spice and forest floor.

Silky, fine-grained tannins give a fine balance of weight and elegance, with juicy red berries alongside faint, well-integrated barrel vanilla and flinty elements. The finish is long, fresh, and tense, with a lingering chalky and saline cut.

More About The Winery

Francis Egly's champagnes impress with the exceptional quality of their base wines. They are powerful, terroir-expressive sparkling wines that are mainly based on Pinot Noir. Given that the Domaine is one of the most renowned producers of winemaking champagne today, it has not been in this business that long. Before Francis Egly took over the helm in 1982, most of the grapes were sold to negociants.

Of the 12 hectares on the estate, eight are in Ambonnay and the rest in Bouzy, Verzenay and Vrigny. Francis Egly spends most of his work in the vineyard and is an advocate of very ripe grape material and the associated late harvest.

In addition to its sparkling wines, which are sought after worldwide and are always highly praised by the guild of critics, the House of Egly-Ouriet also prepares the still largely undisputed most elegant and most complete still wines (Coteaux Champenois) in all of Champagne. These are extremely profound Pinot Noirs of Burgundian format, which ripen excellently, but are usually difficult to obtain due to the small quantities.