A champagne that shakes up Tradition
Like many of you, Christmas was undoubtedly an opportunity to taste and eat a variety of things. For this New Year's Eve meal, I have honored a rare cuvée: the Rosé 2Xoz cuvée from Maison Pouillon.
AND THAT MOVED ME TO DESSERT ...
The 2Xoz cuvée is a unique cuvée in the Pouillon range, because it is vinified in a completely different way from the other champagnes of the house. A singular elaboration which offers an equally singular color to this rosé champagne. Some would say dark rosé, very dark rosé, intense or very pronounced ...
This sparkling wine from the Maison de Champagne Pouillon, the "2xoz", made its entry into the list of the last edition "The Best Wines of France 2010" (even if it is not the absolute reference for all, that's all). similarly to underline). The tasting was impressive. Red color, intense dew (I read somewhere "eye-of-partridge"), we distinguish by impression, a different bubble from champagne, as if by magic it is an illusion. In the mouth, even if it seemed a little effervescent, “2xoz” is complex.
It develops subtle notes of candied fruit and a slight bitterness close to pomelo. A sensation of gingerbread comes deliciously at the end of the palate.
Code name : 2xoz
Fabrice Pouillon, a young winegrower in the village of Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, is in perpetual reflection with the support of his wife, Elodie, totally accomplice and partner in this passion for champagne wine. Together, for several years they have cultivated around 15 hectares from the Desbordes-Amiaud and Roger Pouillon family estates. The production of this champagne wine is unprecedented, and the “2xoz” has been pampered by its sires since 2004 on 50-year-old vines.
The production of "2xoz" is made from exceptionally very ripe grapes. Throughout its vinification Elodie and Fabrice exclusively use natural fruit sugar. No chaptalisation (the act of adding sugar to the must to increase the final alcohol level) is practiced, and the grape harvest is therefore done at a maturity well beyond Champagne practices. Regarding the name of this champagne wine, Fabrice Pouillon explains that "grape sugar is composed of glucose and fructose which are part of the hexose family, hence the name: 2Xoz". (Hexose is the sugar in the pulp of the reason which turns into alcohol under the effect of the yeast).
