75cl
Champagne Pierre Peters L'Etonnant Monsieur Victor Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru 2009
Vendor code : 1285
Rodolphe Peters brilliantly runs the renowned Champagne house Pierre Peters, which spans 19 hectares in Mesnil-sur-Oger, where Chardonnay reveals itself in its purest and most chalk-infused form. Vinification takes place in stainless steel, ensuring the wines are never overly austere. Today, Peters slightly delays the release of his flagship wines, Les Chétillons and Montjolys, extending their aging by six months ‘sur lattes,’ followed by an additional year on cork. Buyers should note that Pierre Peters Champagne's excellence is evident even in the serious entry-level wines, making the purchase of the entire range highly justifiable.
Color
White
Country
France
Grape
Chardonnay
Region
Champagne
Vintage
2009
Producer
Champagne Pierre Peters
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The 2009 Pierre Péters L'Etonnant Monsieur Victor Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Champagne is a rich and dense wine with hints of yellow fruits and acacia. On the palate, there are nutty notes, citrus, and a long finish. L'Etonnant Monsieur Victor is a Péters family project, named after Rodolphe Péters' son Victor, whose drawings adorn each bottle. The wine has been crafted using the perpetual reserve technique (Solera) since 1988 and is aged in steel and concrete vats, as well as large barrels. The grapes for this Champagne are harvested from the Les Chétillons plots. The Champagne was aged for 6 years on lees. It is recommended to drink between 2016 and 2030.
L'Etonnant Monsieur Victor is, above all, a family project. This Champagne diverges from the current trend of single-vintage wines from single vineyards and is crafted according to the time-honored tradition of multi-vintage blends. Rodolphe Péters enlisted the talent and passion of his son to personalize the labels with his drawings, giving each bottle a truly unique character. Rodolphe Péters explains: ‘In an effort to create the finest multi-vintage Champagne possible, we carefully selected the best wines from our Perpetual Reserve, dating back to 1988 (wines stored in stainless steel vats, concrete, and large barrels), as well as the best wines from the most recent vintage from the Chétillon terroir. We then blended them in nearly equal proportions before bottling. The older wines enrich the younger ones, which in turn contribute their character and freshness.’ L'Etonnant Monsieur Victor is aged for 6 years on natural cork in the cellars. The code associated with each release of these cuvées indicates the artist admired and parodied by Rodolphe and Fabienne's son Victor (e.g., TM - Tim Burton) and the base year of the blend (09 - 2009, 10 - 2010, etc.).
Reviews from critics
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Vinous
The 2009 L’Etonnant Monsieur Victor, a new wine from Rodolphe Péters, is a blend of the best tank of 2009 Chétillons and a tank of Réserve Oubliée. This is the best bottle of the 2009 I have tasted yet. Rich, ample and radiant, in the best style of the year, the Etonnant Monsieur Victor is superb today. Lemon confit, peach, spice, white flowers, and brioche shape the generous, inviting finish. I confess at the outset I did not really see the rationale of sacrificing the best tank of Chétillons for the Monsieur Victor, but this bottle may have changed my mind. This is a superb showing.
Wine Advocate
The NV L'Étonnant Monsieur Victor Edition MK09 is the first release of a newly created top Chardonnay cuvée that blends the best tanks of Les Chétillons with the best vats of the family's perpetual reserve (solera). Based on 2009 and disgorged in December 2015, this Blanc des Blancs offers an intense and ripe nose that indicates a lovely maturity of ripe and baked apples with a touch of cinnamon. Full-bodied, round, intense and fresh on the palate, this is a very pure, lean and mineral, but also fruity Champagne with a very long and complex finish. A simply great new Champagne whose artistic label is very cool.
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