tange-gerard Blanc de Blancs

The Blanc de Blancs from Tange-Gerard is a white champagne made of 100% Chardonnay grapes from one year.

This kind of wine is why the Côte de Blancs region is so appreciated by champagne lovers. It shows a wonderful freshness with rich layers of different floral, fruity and toasty aromas and flavours that you may discover when you appreciate the champagne.

At the time of grape harvest, the translucent skin of the grapes will be neatly decorated with little, black dots and be of a yellowish colour that may or may not still be influenced by the acid green of summer. That’s the reason for the yellow Tange-Gerard label.

Nothing puts more value to the special moments of your life than champagne. The Blanc de Blancs is a great choice for an aperitif and an excellent match with seafood or white fishes, raw or cooked.

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Please find dosage, month and year of disgorgement and more below. Download the fact sheet and read more about the vintage, the vinification and how to serve.

Blanc de Blancs dosage et cetera

Filtering, bottling (tirage), dosage, disgorgement. These are some of the technical steps in the long process from young newly fermented still wine to ready-to-enjoy champagne. Below, you will find a short description of the year in our vineyards with a few of the technical informations from the vinification.

2018:

In 2018, a very wet winter was followed by a cold spring with slightly delayed buds. The sun reappeared to remain in control most of the summer. This implied warm and dry vineyards. It was a year of general abundance of grapes and they were in a state of perfect health as the grape harvest took off in end August.

Bottling: April 2019

Disgorgement: October 2023

Dosage: 6 g/l

2017:

2017 was a heterogeneous year where balance became increasingly difficult as the grape harvest approached. We escaped spring frost in early April, fast growth followed, and
we were pleased when cooler temperatures slowed down the speed in July. August brought too much rain under first mild then warm temperatures and grey rots set off. Eventually when the harvest began, the objective had changed from perfect maturation to save grapes from rotting. However, our Chardonnays remained healthy which allowed us to land fine grapes that are part of the basis of this member of the Blanc de Blancs family.

Bottling: April 2018

Disgorgement: October 2023

Dosage: 4,5 g/l

2016:

The year of all the plagues - frost, hail, disease, heat damage and lots of rain - and a classic demonstration of the Champagne miracle of margins. These abundant amounts of rain were followed by abundantly warm temperatures. Some grapes were grilled, the rest stayed small until a final shower made them put on weight whilst temperatures stayed at a level not to compromise the health of the grapes. On top of this, the crucial balance between acidity and sugars turned out excellent and left us yet another specimen of the Blanc de Blancs family of vintages.

 Bottling: April 2017

Disgorgement: February 2022

Dosage: 6,5 g/l

2015:

The first in a series of “warm” years with a lot of sun and very little rain during the growth season. Abundant amounts of rain in the autumn and winter of 2014 counterbalanced the dry summer with no rain for 10 weeks to some extent. However, the yields remained low, the grapes could not put on much weight with little rain. Very mature and healthy grapes of quite low acidity were other general characteristics of this warm year.

Bottling: April 2016

Disgorgement: October 2022

Dosage: 5 g/l

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