Nicolas Maillart Champagne Extra Brut 1er Cru "Platine" NV, natural wine bottle at Primal Wine
Nicolas Maillart
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Nicolas Maillart Champagne Extra Brut 1er Cru "Platine" NV

$75.00
Tasting notes

A very pale rosé color from the high percentage of Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier in the blend, Platine soars with a beautiful perfume of orange blossom and an incredibly soft mousse. This Bouzy-dominant blend of Pinot Noir with 2% still red and 1 gram of dosage is bright, incisive, and chalky.

  • Unfiltered
  • Low Sulfites
BodyFruitTanninAcidity
Lemon PeelBriocheOrange BlossomStone Fruit
Dry/Sweet:Dry
Wine Type:Sparkling Wine
Wine Style:Sparkling
Grapes:Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier
Farming:Sustainable
Vintage:NV
Alcohol:13%
Country:France
Region:Champagne
Appellation:Champagne 1er Cru
Bottle Size:750ml
Sugar Level:Zero Added Sugar
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Nicolas Maillart Champagne Extra Brut 1er Cru "Platine" NV
$75.00

Producer profile

Nicolas Maillart

The Maillart family can trace vine owning back to the village of Chamery in 1753, and members have cultivated vines on the northern part of the Montagne de Reims for centuries. Nicolas Maillart, trained as an engineer and oenologist, returned to the family estate in 2003 and stopped selling grapes to the cooperative, taking over as the ninth generation. The winery sits at Écueil, a village classified Premier Cru just south of Reims. The estate holds around 15 hectares of vines across Écueil, Villers-Allerand, and Bouzy. The range has grown to a dozen cuvées, most of them single-vineyard bottlings.

The estate is certified HVE3 for high environmental value and farms organically, working only with organic fertiliser, using no weedkillers, and ploughing between the vines. The holdings lie exclusively in Premier Cru and Grand Cru villages on the Montagne de Reims, with vines mostly positioned mid-slope. The average vine age is around 30 years, and the majority of the vineyard is planted from selection massale rather than clones. Pinot Noir dominates the plantings, complemented by Chardonnay, Meunier, and small parcels of the rarer Petit Meslier at Villers-Allerand. Since 2009 the estate has installed solar panels supplying much of its energy needs.

Nicolas controls, farms, and manages all of his vineyards himself and works all of his soils. Grapes are harvested early in the morning and pressed slowly and gently using gravity-flow, with each variety vinified separately. Vinification takes place in temperature-controlled stainless steel and in oak, chosen to suit the terroir, and much of the fruit is barrel fermented. His Champagnes are aged in wood, minimally sulfured, and bottled unfiltered with very little dosage. Bottles are disgorged and laid down for at least three months before sale.

Wine region

Champagne, France

The Montagne de Reims is a horseshoe-shaped massif south of Reims and the most northern of Champagne's sub-regions. Its vineyards sit on slopes facing south, east, and in places north, with most Champagne plantings occurring in a band between roughly 130 and 260 metres. The subsoil is Cretaceous chalk, a porous limestone formed from calcified marine organisms that holds water and radiates stored heat in this cool, marginal climate. On the Montagne the chalk often lies deep beneath a thinner cover of clay, sand, and slope-wash. Mid-slope siting provides drainage and lets cold air drain away from the vines during spring frost windows. Pinot Noir is the dominant grape across these slopes.

The Champagne AOC was fixed by a 1927 law and formally established by decree on 29 June 1936, with the CIVC founded in 1941 to regulate it. Three grapes dominate plantings: Pinot Noir at roughly 38 percent, Meunier at roughly 31 percent, and Chardonnay at roughly 31 percent, alongside four minor authorised varieties accounting for under 0.4 percent. Villages are ranked by the Échelle des Crus, established in 1919, which rates 17 Grand Cru communes at 100 percent and around 44 Premier Cru communes at 90 to 99 percent, with the price-fixing role abolished after the 2003 harvest. Nine of the 17 Grand Crus lie in the Montagne de Reims. Non-vintage cuvées require a minimum 15 months on the lees. Nicolas Maillart draws Platine only from Premier Cru Villers-Allerand and Écueil and Grand Cru Bouzy within this framework.

Frequently asked question

We will process and ship your order in 2-3 business days, you will receive a shipping confirmation email with tracking as soon as the Carrier scans the shipping label.

Ground shipping time depends on location, here's a breakdown:

West Coast: 1-2 business days
Midwest: 3-4 business days
East Coast: 5 business days

Process time is not shipping time. Shipping time starts from the days successive to the day of shipping, after the order has been processed.

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Carrier will try to delivery a package up to three times before returning the package to us.

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If you miss a delivery and a package gets returned to us we have two options:

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