Food Production - Verzy, Grand Est, France
Family-owned for five generations, Penet-Chardonnet is an independent, traditional estate that exclusively produces Champagne in the ultra premium, 100% Grand Cru range.The fully-owned 6-hectare vineyard stretches along the towns of Verzy and Verzenay, a Grand Cru area in the "Montagne de Reims". Only the best vines are classified Grand Cru, an honor granted to less than 13% of the vineyards in the Champagne region. Our estate grown Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes are used in all our cuvees, carefully hand-picked at the perfect time during the harvest and rigorously selected, ensuring only the very best grapes are used. Non-vintage Champagnes require experienced knowledge to blend the right grapes at the right time from the year's harvest and reserve wines. Penet-Chardonnet has enhanced this art of blending for decades, producing a wine with personal style and full of character and distinction.Only the rarest of excellent vintages allow Penet-Chardonnet to produce the Grande Reserve and Diane Claire, its finest cuvées. Due to the nature of the stringent selection process undergone in creating the Diane Claire, quantities of this preeminent cuvée are very limited.