Champagne Pierre Baillette
Champagne Pierre Baillette
【Champagne of pure, luminous transparency】
A house in the village of Trois-Puits in the Montagne de Reims, run today by Perrine Baillette, daughter of Pierre Baillette.
She learned her craft under her former husband Alexandre Chartogne of Chartogne-Taillet, and works along much the same lines.
Drawing on a real gift for the work, she has devoted herself to making Champagnes in which every cuvée expresses its terroir to the full.
She farms 3.65 hectares of Grand Cru vineyard. Most of the fruit is Pinot Noir from vines over thirty-five years old in Trois-Puits and Rilly-la-Montagne, with a little Chardonnay from Verzenay.
Since 2010 not a single chemical treatment has touched the vines, and machinery is kept to an absolute minimum.
Two horses, Tarzan and Saumur, do the ploughing. In pursuit of the purest possible Champagne, no cultured yeasts are used and dosage is kept tiny.
The wines age slowly in the cellars for three to six years, then rest a further six months at least on cork before release.
