Millesime Rare
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared sea scallops, roasted pheasant or poultry in a light cream sauce, and aged hard cheeses like Parmigiano-Reggiano or Comté.
✨ Technical Specifications
Founded in 1812, Laurent-Perrier is one of Champagne's most storied family-run houses, celebrated for pioneering a style defined by freshness, elegance, and purity. The house's Millésimé (Vintage) is a rare and highly selective bottling, crafted only in exceptional years when nature grants a perfect balance of sugar and acidity. While many Champagne houses emphasize Pinot Noir in their vintage blends, Laurent-Perrier elevates Chardonnay—sourced from prestigious Grand Crus in the Côte des Blancs—to play an equal or dominant role alongside Pinot Noir from the Montagne de Reims. Under the historical guidance of Bernard de Nonancourt, who revitalized the house post-WWII, Laurent-Perrier perfected long-term lees aging in their deep, chalk cellars in Tours-sur-Marne. This extended maturation imparts complex notes of toasted brioche, white flowers, and preserved citrus, while retaining the vibrant mineral spine that defines the house's terroir-driven philosophy.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1812 by André Michel Pierlot in Tours-sur-Marne, Laurent-Perrier grew into one of Champagne's preeminent family-owned houses under the visionary stewardship of Bernard de Nonancourt. Situated at the junction of the Montagne de Reims, Vallée de la Marne, and Côte des Blancs, the domaine draws from prestigious Grand Cru villages rooted in deep, moisture-regulating Belemnite chalk and limestone subsoils. Pioneering the systematic use of stainless-steel temperature-controlled fermentation during the late 1970s, Laurent-Perrier forged a signature vinous architecture anchored by Chardonnay dominance, absolute reductive clarity, crystalline freshness, and pristine tension without oxidative masking. Led cellar-side by Chef de Cave Olivier Vigneron under the custodianship of the de Nonancourt family, the estate's benchmark cuvées include its emblematic Cuvée Rosé macerated from 100% Pinot Noir and the prestigious Grand Siècle, a benchmark multi-vintage prestige assemblage blending three complementary declared vintage declarations to reconstruct the ideal year.
🍇 Grapes
Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier