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Longue Garde is the same blend as the standard Eugene, held on its lees for years rather than months and disgorged with zero dosage. That extra time is the whole argument: Meunier is supposed to be the early-drinking grape of Champagne, and Cedric Mousse keeps producing evidence to the contrary. The wine is 80% Meunier and 20% Pinot Noir from forty-year-old vines in Cuisles, Jonquery and Chatillon-sur-Marne, farmed organically on the green clay over limestone marl of the Vallee de la Marne, with roughly half the blend drawn from the perpetual reserve the family has built since 2003. It ferments and ages in stainless steel with malolactic completed, so with no sugar added at disgorgement the texture has to come from the lees aging alone, and it does. Drink it now with food, or hold it another five years.
Longue Garde is the same blend as the standard Eugene, held on its lees for years rather than months and disgorged with zero dosage. That extra time is the whole argument: Meunier is supposed to be the early-drinking grape of Champagne, and Cedric Mousse keeps producing evidence to the contrary. The wine is 80% Meunier and 20% Pinot Noir from forty-year-old vines in Cuisles, Jonquery and Chatillon-sur-Marne, farmed organically on the green clay over limestone marl of the Vallee de la Marne, with roughly half the blend drawn from the perpetual reserve the family has built since 2003. It ferments and ages in stainless steel with malolactic completed, so with no sugar added at disgorgement the texture has to come from the lees aging alone, and it does. Drink it now with food, or hold it another five years.