From: Champagne, France
Varietal: 90% Pinot Noir, 10% Chardonnay
Tasting Notes: The R. Dumont Brut Tradition champagne showcases the elegance and finesse of Pinot Noir from the south of Champagne. Raspberry and pomegranate, spiced apple and brioche buns all coalesce together in a rich & round, yet zesty, bubbly. It's the complete package with its lush, tiny bubbles and the chalky minerality we all love from Champagne.
Pairing: Try this with fried Maitake mushrooms or vegetable tempura with ponzu sauce, butternut squash ravioli with brown butter sage, chicken teriyaki, Swedish meatballs, duck and cherry mains... you get the idea; the world of wine pairings is your oyster.
We’re featuring a twist off of the butternut squash idea above and recommending this fantastic pasta for the perfect pairing: Pasta Aglio Olio With Butternut Squash by Ali Slagle.
About. The Champagne house of the Dumont family is situated in Champignol-lez-Mondeville, a village in the southern Champagne region of the Aube, some 90 miles southeast of Reims and Epernay. Characterized by forested hills, streams and vineyards, it is a natural and reflective environment that has attracted people such as Saint Bernard (Clairvaux) and Renoir (Essoyes). The Dumonts have owned vineyards in this area for over two hundred years and today Bernard Dumont, along with his cousin and his nephew, work together to produce champagne exclusively from their own 22 hectares. The soils are a geological extension of those in Chablis, namely Kimmeridgian chalky clay. The vineyard is planted with 90% Pinot Noir and 10% Chardonnay. As Bernard Dumont says with amusement, “we grow grapes on the same soils as the vine-growers in the Chablis region. There, they produce white wine from white grapes and here we produce white wine from red grapes.
