Burgundy & Champagne

Timed Online Auction, 2 - 12 June 2023

Champagne & Burgundy
About the Session

The wines of Burgundy and single vineyard Champagnes are produced in small quantities and command high prices. Rarely traded, mature bottles are even more rare in our small market.


Sold for

ZAR 8 794
Lot 99
  • Pierre Péters; Cuvée Spéciale Les Chétillons Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Brut; 2004; 1 (1 x 1); 750ml


Lot Estimate
ZAR 6 500 - 8 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 8 794

About this Item

2004 Cuvée Spéciale Les Chétillons Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Brut
1 (1 x 1) 750ml

Champagne Pierre Péters is one of the most highly respected champagne growers in the village of Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, in the heart of the Côte des Blancs. Fourth generation winemaker Rodolphe Péters crafts champagne that is both delicious in their youth, but also make for “excellent candidates for long ageing, developing a wonderful complexity and depth over time”, writes UK’s Decanter magazine. Originally founded in 1919 under the name Camille Péters, the name Péters is synonymous with Le Mesnil-sur-Oger; with nearly three-quarters of the estate’s vineyard holdings located there. The estate aims for environmental sustainability in its viticulture, avoiding pesticides and herbicides.

Provenance

Private Client

Critics Ratings

‘The 2004 Brut Blanc de Blancs Cuvée Spéciale Les Chétillons was showing especially well in this tasting, soaring from the glass with aromas of dried citrus fruits, oyster shell, wheat toast and plenty of nutty, smoky autolytic top notes. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, layered and impressively muscular and concentrated for the vintage, with chalky dry extract and a long, searingly mineral finish. While this is a racy Chétillon, the magic of bottle age means that it is also becoming quite rich and enveloping, without losing its wonderfully incisive Mesnil backbone.’ - William Kelley, Wine Advocate, 96/100 (Aug 2019)

'The 2004 Brut Millésime Cuvée Spéciale Les Chétillons is stratospheric. This is a cool, inward Chétillons endowed with breathtaking finesse. The 2004 is noticeably more vibrant and focused than the decidedly exuberant 2002. Ripe pears, almonds and jasmine are some of the notes that flesh out in this pure, energetic wine. Hints of chalk, smoke and ash wrap around the intense finish. This is easily one of the very finest of the 2004s that has been released so far. Peters' objective with Les Chétillons is to make wine that expresses terroir rather than vintage. In 2004 Peters used only two of his three plots in Les Chétillons, as he wasn't totally happy with the way one of the parcels responded in terms of the high yields that were typical that year. That level of attention to detail goes a long way in explaining why the 2004 is so exceptional.' - Antonio Galloni, Vinous, 96/100 (Dec 2011)

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