Fut de Chene MV09 Brut
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted pheasant, creamy mushroom risotto, roasted veal chop
✨ Technical Specifications
The Henri Giraud Fût de Chêne MV09 Brut represents a masterful expression of the Grand Cru terroir of Aÿ, combining the richness of the 2009 harvest with the house's signature perpetual reserve system. This multi-vintage cuvée is famously vinified and aged in oak casks crafted from the nearby Argonne Forest, a traditional practice revived by Claude Giraud to restore the historical relationship between Champagne and its local wood. The result is a highly vinous, powerful Champagne with a deep golden hue, showing complex layers of candied citrus, warm spices, toasted nuts, and a profound mineral backbone. It stands as a tribute to the historic winemaking heritage of Aÿ, where royalty once sought out these prized still and sparkling wines.
🍾 About the Producer
Rooted in the historic Grand Cru village of Aÿ since 1625, Champagne Henri Giraud represents a benchmark in vinous, artisanal Champagne production. Stewarded by 12th-generation proprietor Claude Giraud alongside cellar master and son-in-law Sébastien Le Golvet, the house is renowned for championing Pinot Noir cultivated on deep, south-facing belemnite chalk slopes. Henri Giraud is celebrated for reviving the historical practice of fermenting and maturing base wines exclusively in new and seasoned casks coopered from local Argonne Forest oak, as well as sandstone and terracotta amphorae, entirely eliminating stainless steel. Viticulture adheres to rigorous sustainable standards, eschewing pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides under a certified zero-residue protocol. The estate produces richly textured, vinous champagnes defined by intense chalky minerality, structural depth, and micro-oxygenated nuance. Flagship cuvées include the prestigious vintage oak-aged Argonne, the perpetual reserve multi-vintage Fût de Chêne MV series, and the PR Perpetual Reserve bottlings.
🍇 Grapes
Pinot Noir 70%, Chardonnay 30%
🍷 ABV
12%