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After
a natural winter period of rest, nature starts awakening..
In the spring-time, out of every downy bud, delicate leaves first
bloom and then let tiny grapes blossom.
At the end of June, each tiny part of the grape flowers, which will
later transform the whole grape into a cobweb-like arborescence.
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If
the climatic conditions are favourable, the flowery caps later fall
down, the berries swell, thus slowly getting more and more sugary
while acquiring a purplish or golden robe, according to the wine
plant (or variety of wine).
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At
the end of September or beginning of October, that is to say one
hundred days after blossoming, the grapes reach maturity.
The fragile and precious grapes are harvested by hand and delicately
laid inside baskets before being taken to the press.
In order to prevent any bruising of the grapes which might thus
impart some of their colour to the must, the grapes are poured into
the press : 4,000 kg which will give 20,50 hl of juice.
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During
the following spring the new "cuvée" is bottled after reserve
wine has been added.
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The
bottles are let to rest for several years inside the cool and dark
Champagne cellars.
The Champagne thus acquires the fullness of its bouquet as well
as its fineness.
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Champagne
is the off-spring of Man and Nature.
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