Description / Reviews
// 100% Côte des Blancs Chardonnay (certified organic & biodynamic)
2022 base vintage (with 40% reserve wines dating back to 2004)
Aged on lees for over two years before disgorged March 2025
3g/L dosage
"Latitude is 100% Côte des Blancs Chardonnay from vineyards on the southern side of Vertus. These vineyards are on roughly the same latitude, hence the name, which also hints at the breadth of texture that wines from these sites—having more clay in the soil—tend to offer. In the cellar, Larmandier uses mostly large casks (almost all the wood now comes from Stockinger in Austria). Fermentation and malolactic fermentation take place naturally, and there is no filtration. Latitude matures in bottle for more than two years before disgorgement and dosage at low, extra-brut levels (in this case, 3 g/L) at least six months before release. This bottling is based on the 2022 vintage, with 40% reserve wine drawn from a ‘perpetual’ reserve started in 2004." - Importer Notes
"Very bready, smoky bouquet. Very fresh and crisp in the mouth, dry, savoury, lush flavour, low-dosage style, with superb acidity. Small flowers, subtly complex, and the aldehydes are under control." - 95 Points, Huon Hooke, The Real Review
"The NV (2022) Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs Latitude 1er Cru is stellar in this range. Broad and ample, the Latitude is so impressive. Lemon confit, marzipan, tangerine peel, mint and chalk are dialed up. More than anything else, I am so impressed with the wine's sheer palate presence. There's gorgeous density and character here." - 94 Points, Antonio Galloni, Vinous
"Very ethereal, pure and fresh feeling, a gentle haze to texture, a core of brittle, bright, saline minerality – around this, some soft, creamy vanilla nuance, cinnamon toast, baked apple and sweet spice. It shimmers with tiny, fine bubbles. Some palate staining, liquid spice follows on. Really beautiful." - 94 Points, Mike Bennie, The Wine Front
