Champagne Ruinart R de Ruinart 2016

Founded in 1729, Ruinart was the first Champagne House. Before her, there was none. At its source, the intuition of a monk who was ahead of his time. On 1 September 1729, Nicolas Ruinart, a clothier from Reims like his father, opened his first account book dedicated to sparkling wine. He is 33 years old. This account book is a birth certificate: that of the first Champagne House ever created.
The first bottles were destined for its traditional customers, who bought sheets and canvases. But Nicolas Ruinart is a shrewd and refined businessman. He embraced his uncle's pioneering vision. History proves him right. Six years later, Maison Ruinart abandoned the fabric trade to devote itself to the champagne trade. From then on, it would be his only vocation. 170 bottles sold in 1730, 3,000 bottles in 1731, 36,000 in 1761.
"In the name of God and the Blessed Virgin," writes the enterprising nephew at the top of his account book. Originally, there is this monk. Benedictine, intuitive, visionary, hard-working, modest: Dom Thierry Ruinart (1657-1709), contemporary of Louis XIV. A brilliant theologian and historian, at the age of 23 he was called to the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, one of the most important centres of study in the Christian world, a stone's throw from Paris. There, from the City and the Court, he heard echoes of social life and its crazes, especially for this new wine which was not yet called "champagne" but which was already all the rage among the aristocratic youth. We are at the dawn of the eighteenth century. Dom Ruinart, author of scholarly works, also had a taste for the things of his time and his curiosity was coupled with a keen sense of business. He was born in Champagne where his brother was a cloth merchant and returned there many times. On the strength of all these observations, he became convinced that this "sparkling wine" born from the vines of his province, also known as "foam wine", has a bright future. He passed on this conviction to his brother and nephew. In 1729, twenty years after the death of his uncle, Nicolas Ruinart founded the first Champagne House. The intuition of the pioneering monk has just entered history.
The Chardonnay grape variety is the soul of Maison Ruinart. Its grapes, mainly from the Côte des Blancs and the Montagne de Reims, are at the heart of all its vintages. With a great aromatic freshness, lively, pure, luminous, it is the common thread of all his blends. Delicate and fragile, Chardonnay blossoms and only gives the measure of its aromatic richness over the course of a slow maturation in the coolness of the chalk quarries: up to 3 years for non-vintage wines, 9 to 10 years for a Dom Ruinart. This maturation requires the Cellar Master to master the whims of a grape variety like no other. Luminosity, intensity and elegance are the qualities that give Gout Ruinart its unique and rare personality.
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