Champagne Bonnet Ponson - Les Vignes Dieu - Blanc de Blancs - Premier Cru 2015
Champagne Bonnet Ponson is located in Chamery, in the Petite Montagne de Reims , Premier Cru Village de Champagne . Since 1862, the family has been making Champagne with Grégoire Bonnet as one of the first harvesters in the village. After him, Jules Bonnet expanded the estate by buying new plots of land in Chamery and installing a 5,500 kg wooden press powered by human power, before electricity reached the village, around 1902. His son Raoul settled in another place in the village after the destruction of the family cellar by a bombing in the Second World War. He then initiated the construction of the current cellars to store his small production of around 5,000 bottles per year. He was quickly joined by his son André, who took charge of plowing the family vineyards with his two horses from the age of 14. In 1956, André Bonnet met Monique Ponson, herself from a family of winegrowers from Vrigny, another village in the Montagne de Reims. From their union, André and Monique founded the Bonnet-Ponson estate, cultivating a few plots of Meunier and Pinot noir in Chamery, Vrigny and Coulommes la Montagne . After a lifetime of hard work, the surface area of the vines was extended to 9 hectares, planted with three grape varieties in equal parts. For 30 years, their son Thierry Bonnet continued the development of the estate with the construction of new cellars and the addition of an additional hectare to the vineyard, several new plots in the communes of Chamery, Vrigny and Verzenay . After studying oenology and working as a winemaker in the southwest of France, Cyril Bonnet joined the family estate in 2013, at the same time beginning the conversion of the entire vineyard to organic farming , now certified .
Les Vignes Dieu is a unique plot planted in 1962, from the Coulommes-la-Montagne terroir, classified Premier Cru. Champagne is a Vintage Blanc de Blancs , made entirely from Chardonnay . The first fermentation takes place in stainless steel vats (50%) and 228 liter oak barrels (50%) and the wine undergoes a malolactic conversion . Aging on lees lasted 7 months before bottling. The second fermentation takes place in the bottle with a dosage of 1.5 g/L . The wine is aged in the bottle for a minimum of 6 additional years . It was bottled in May 2016 and disgorged in November 2023.
Grape varieties: 100% Chardonnay
