Champagne Bonnet Ponson - Cuvée Perpétuelle - Non Dosé - Premier Cru
Champagne Bonnet Ponson is located in Chamery, in the Petite Montagne de Reims , Premier Cru Village of Champagne . Since 1862, the family has been producing Champagne with Grégoire Bonnet as one of the first harvest manipulators in the village. After him, Jules Bonnet expanded the estate by purchasing new plots 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 part of the village after the family cellar was destroyed by a bombing during 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 vines 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 the 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 , which is now certified .
This Cuvée Perpétuelle “Non Dosé” is a blend of Pinot Noir (40%), Chardonnay (30%) and Meunier (30%) from the 2020 harvest, with 40% reserve wines from a perpetual reserve. The Champagne comes from a selection of 35-year-old vineyard plots from the terroirs of Chamery, Vrigny and Coulommes-la-Montagne, classified Premier Cru. The first fermentation takes place in stainless steel vats (85%) and in 228-litre barrels (15%) and the wine undergoes malolactic conversion . The aging on lees lasted 8 months before being blended with the reserve wine. The second fermentation takes place in the bottle without dosage . The wine was bottled in May 2021 and disgorged in December 2023.
Grape varieties: 40% Pinot Noir, 30% Chardonnay, 30% Meunier
