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About Champagne Mouzon-Leroux
We’re so excited to welcome Sébastien Mouzon and his domaine, Mouzon-Leroux to the portfolio. This dynamic, ninth-generation grower produces exciting, terroir- driven Champagnes from 60 separate plots across eight hectares of vines in the Grand Cru village of Verzy, in the Montagne du Reims.
This underexposed village is home to some of the most diverse terroirs in the northern Montagne, including some rare silex soils. Verzy faces northeast, producing wines with more minerality and electricity than the two villages that make up Montagne’s Grand Cru trio of villages, Mailly and Verzenay. While the fruit of this subregion has traditionally been blended to add tension to other wines of the Montagne, Mouzon crafts impressively original and incisive wines that speak of Verzy like few have before.
Most of the estate is planted to Pinot Noir, but Sébastien Mouzon and his family also have smaller parcels of Chardonnay, Arbane, Pinot Gris, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Meunier and Petit Meslier. In his quest to peel back the layers of his terroirs, the vineyards are certified organic and biodynamically worked, yields are kept very low, and the winery approach is classically artisanal. Horses are used for ploughing, sheep and chickens are used to control cover crops. Fermentation and élevage is completed in a mix of steel tanks and 500-litre, four- to five- year-old 500L barrels. Malo is allowed and sulphur additions are as small as possible.
