2013 Les Meuniers de Clémence
The Domaine Lelarge-Pugeot has a history of well over 200 years, when the first ancestor of the Lelarge family settled in Vrigny, in the north-western part of the Petit Montagne de Reims, a village now classified as Premier Cru. Here, the long tradition of agriculture and family wine-growing began, intertwined with European history and overcoming two wars, arriving at the bottling of its first cuvées in the distant 1930s. More recently - in the early 1980s - Dominique Lelarge took over the reins of the estate and married Dominique Pugeot, his partner at the Burgundy School of Viticulture. The two founded the current Lelarge-Pugeot, and from the very beginning their production was based on sustainability and respect for nature and biodiversity. The two winegrowers move to the use of horses for work in the vineyards. Organic certification arrive in 2010, the same year in which the first cuvée 100% Meunier was bottled, from the ancestral grape of the Domaine. The 100% Meunier