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• Cramant – the best producers to know
  25 September 2021, by Sebastian Nickel

  Decanter, July 2020, by Charles Curtis MW
  JVignier
  Nathalie Vignier is a 10th generation grower based in Cramant, making delicious wines with her collaborator Sebastian Nickel and her brother Jean. The wines under the JVignier label are all top-notch, particularly the Silexus Sezannensis from the Côte de Sézanne, the parcellaire Les Longues Verges from Cramant and the Cuvée Éphémère (abbreviated QVFMR), which changes every year.
  J.Vignier Les Longues Verges Grand Cru Extra Brut 2012
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• Champagne J.Vignier @ Wine Paris 2020
  31 January 2020, by Sebastian Nickel
• Deux Terres : One of the most idiosyncratic champagnes of all...
  14 January 2020, by Sebastian Nickel

  Specialities hitting the market This category covers special non-vintage bottling – such as plot selections or undosed wines – born of champagne producers’ inventiveness and love of experimenting, as well as top wines that demonstrate a particularly highly developed art of blending.
  Champagne J.Vignier Deux Terres Blanc de Blancs A complex, particularly mineral nose with herbal touches, intense in the attack, dense structure, exceptionally spirited and hugely lingering, an immensely (...)

• “These are generous champagnes, built around ripe fruit...” Tyson Stelzer on Champagne J.Vignier
  12 December 2019, by Sebastian Nickel

  Nathalie Vignier is the tenth generation of her family to grow grapes in Champagne, and the sixth in her village of Cramant. In team with her family friend Sebastian Nickel, their substantial estate spans 16.5 hectares, planted exclusively to chardonnay in Cramant, Oiry and Chouilly and the Coteaux du Sézannais... These are generous champagnes, built around ripe fruit, vinified in stainless steel vats with full malolactic fermentation and aged long on lees, with little need for dosage, and (...)

• Double silver at Decanter WWA 2019
  17 June 2019, by Sebastian Nickel
• Close encounters of the third kind...
  15 December 2018, by Sebastian Nickel

  “Deux Terres, two worlds, or more specifically their wines, come together and are combined into a characterful whole in this cuvee : The Côte des Blancs and neighbouring Sézannais, a region that is perhaps finally gaining the recognition it deserves.”
  Champagner 2019 - Vinum

• Vintage Story Part 2
  26 October 2018, by Sebastian Nickel

  After diligent consideration, we have taken the decision to baptise our vintage champagne and giving it a name like all our other cuvees. Henceforth, this wine that some of you know as being simply labelled “2008”, will proudly bear its history and origin as cuvee “Deux Terres” (Two Terroirs).
  To make this champagne, two vineyards, two terroirs were chosen in 2008: One in Cramant at the Côte des Blancs, the other in Barbonne-Fayel at the Coteaux du Sézannais. Both vineyards are genetically (...)

• Vintage Story Part 1
  8 October 2018, by Sebastian Nickel

  2018 gave us a lucky harvest. After a vigorous and snowy winter, continuing alternation between abundant rain and sunshine marked spring. Some thunderstorms and hail approached the Côte des Blancs and the Coteaux du Sézannais in May, but except some light leaf damage, none of our vines or grapes were harmed. Mildew was a major problem at that period, but it seemed to be under control at the beginning of the warm and dry summer. Drought was compensated by the huge ground water reserves stored (...)

• Champagne J.Vignier was selected by the Italian wine guide “Le migliori 99 maison the Champagne”
  15 June 2018, by Sebastian Nickel

  Champagne J.Vignier - Ora Alba Grand Cru Blanc de blancs – Cramant, Chouilly, Oiry A wine that exhales terroir, with a strong presence of chalk and white flowers, cedar and lemongrass. Full-bodied, with beguiling and lasting minerality. Freshness on the palate, as well as a creamy structure and citrus aromas lead to a long finish. It keeps its promise / generous. Perfectly fitting dish: Carpaccio of Mediterranean Mackerel. Champagne J.Vignier - Silexus Sezannensis Blanc de blancs – Vineyard (...)

• “Big Bordeaux Tasting” and Champagne in Zurich
  25 May 2018, by Sebastian Nickel

  The annual “Big Bordeaux Tasting” organized by VINUM is less strict than the title suggests, as it opens its doors to some other appellations. This year, on Monday, June 4th, vigneronne Nathalie Vignier and winemaker Sebastian Nickel will be in Zürich to propose the J.Vignier wines for tasting: Pure Blanc de blancs Champagne from various Grand Cru locations in the Côte des Blancs, as well as from the mysterious Coteaux du Sézannais. A young champagne brand from a traditional winery based in (...)

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