Charpentier is a small company part of Vignerons Indépendants founded in 1974 in Villers-sous-Châtillon. The brand was created after the marriage of Jacky Charpentier and Claudine Claisse, both first child of two landowners in the Champagne region.
Most of the vineyards are located on the right side of Marne Valley, on chalk. Pinot Meunier is the main product of the valley. Tradition Brut is the entry level, composed mostly by Meunier, with some traces of pinot noir. Chardonnay, if present, is unnoticeable in the final product.
This tradition brut shows great yellow color with golden notes, with a fine persistent perlage. The nose is based on flowers and fruits, starting from citric and expanding to sweeter notes with time. A delicious touch of apricot and candied oranges complete the bouquet. Very pleasant taste, full-bodied and with a prolonged aftertaste. The acidity we found in the nose is confirmed in the sip. A very good pairing with food, we used it as an all-around appetizer and it managed to pair well even with raw fish. — 7 years ago
Officially obsessed w/Jacky Blot’s Domaine de la Taille aux Loups. They remind me of the Loire woods en route to Paris, every time. 🐺@lettieteague1 — 9 years ago
Deep crimson color, dark by the standards of the producer, with some cloudiness observed as well, this is definitely one rustic Charmes. Some of the usual Truchot funk but it also came across screechy and shrill at first and needed at least an hour in the glass to really come together. Once there, it's plummy and stony and (yes) plenty funky and earthy but there is still a dense core that's not giving up a whole lot. — 10 years ago
I had a heck of a time extracting the cork. Thank you Ah So. Drinking well with lots of acidity, juicy cranberries and minerals. Very nice. — 10 years ago
Some spice and pep — 11 years ago
Bubbly white wine, wonderful for appetizers — 11 years ago
2nd bottle, better-packed in there, would love 2 taste in 3-5 yrs — 12 years ago
Wine Club night.... I got dead last, 4th place with this great bottle — 7 years ago
Light, semi translucent color. Very perfumed, elegant, floral, and layers of aromatic lift comprising of earth and red cherries. Brilliant when it was first opened, but it then slightly tailed off after a hour. Less concentrated but more pure than the Morey St Denis 2003 we had a few weeks back. Definitely performing above village level as indicated by the blind tasting responses. Most thought it was a Premier Cru. — 7 years ago
06. Needs more time. This was the last vintage Truchot made, I guess. Sold a little bit to Weygandt. Great potential here. Awesome texture. — 9 years ago
The Chenin Master - Jacky Blot. Both lush and lithe at the same time. Slammin'. — 10 years ago
Cormoyeux Marne Valley / PM55-PN30-Cha-15 / 2010 base - 2 vintages / 2010 triage / July 2012 disgorge / dosage 8gl/ RS 8gl / ML Ferm / RM / jacky&Valery bochet / clay & chalk / 8.5ha / 6.7k cs / vanilla citrus white flowers brioche — 11 years ago
2000. Sometimes unfiltered brings incredible clarity. I heart Truchot Clos de la Roche — 12 years ago
Cool, blood and iron but so elegant. Quite fleshy which is indicative of the vintage. Nose settles down and becomes sweeter and candied. Berries and raspberries. Such an elegant wine for a ripe vintage. Develops more and more of malt candy notes. Seems the riper vintages tend to show the iron and herbaceous quality. — 7 years ago
Colmar 2017 - ruiz — 8 years ago
This was a very weird split personality of a wine. I believe Jancis had a note calling it New Worldy. When I poured the first glass I thought she was on crack. From the pale color barely darker than rosé to its welterweight presence and flavors very reminiscent of a Truchot but sans funk, New World pinot would have been the last thing on my mind. And then... and then! A bit of sweet licorice pokes through the otherwise fairly tertiary and earthy flavors and the material steadily gets more and more glossy. It is a really dramatic change. It's not that it even feels much riper, just shinier. It still has burgundian proportions but dammit if it doesn't taste kind of New Worldy. Maybe more New Zealand like than California though. — 9 years ago
2005 vintage. It's from Corsica. This is my last of three bottles bought from Garagiste back when they regularly offered fascinating stuff like this, before they jumped the shark. It was the first and last time they ever offered this wine despite my repeatedly prodding them to do so again after I opened my first two early on. I was floored then - it was like drinking a Truchot, almost impossibly light and gossamer. I've been holding on to this last bottle for years, afraid to open it as I didn't want to ruin that perfect memory. Shouldn't have worried, this is still great. And in fact it's aging very much like a Burgundy, although tasting more mature than a Burgundy of a similar age would be, and it's oddly put on a substantial amount of weight: the color's deeper and the material denser than before. It starts out with slightly spiky acidity that needs a bit of time to sort itself out. Then it has a fresh green aroma, full of Alpine herbs. Then it turns deeper, more savory and earthy, with mushroom and saddle leather, very much like a Burgundy knocking on the door of a tertiary period. It has a very fresh acidic spine with a juiciness that brings to mind orange or tangerine, not ordinarily the type of acidity that you see in a red wine. That adds a youthful perspective to a profile that otherwise feels fairly developed. But the most remarkable thing about it is the texture and sleek, slender proportions, not much changed since those bottles years ago that felt like drinking Jacky Truchot. Won't somebody consider importing this wine again? — 10 years ago
Jacky Fuckin' Blot — 11 years ago
Diner Kowloon Ivan, Jacky, Winnie — 11 years ago
Old Jacky Truchot vineyard!! — 12 years ago
Daniel McGeough
In a great place!!! Jacky Blot crushed it — 7 years ago