Drappier : Trop M'en Faut Coteaux Champenois

Characteristics and tasting tips of the cuvée Trop M'en Faut by Drappier

Tasting

With a beautiful pale golden Color, this cuvée seduces with its fruity (ripe mirabelle) and honeyed aromas, stretching to a silky, delicate finish on the Palate.

Drappier delivers a rich and elegantly refined Coteaux Champenois

The estate

Since its founding in 1808, the Maison de Champagne Drappier has a history intimately tied to pinot noir, its grape of predilection. It was in the 1930s that, against the general opinion of the commune, this grape variety was replanted on the estate. History proved the house right: as an anecdote, the Drappier 100% pinot noir cuvée was the preference of General de Gaulle during his family meals.

Today, the children of André and Micheline Drappier represent the eighth generation to cultivate this exceptional vineyard in organic and biodynamic viticulture, highlighting forgotten grape varieties such as Arbane, Petit Meslier and Blanc Vrai.

The vineyard

The Maison Drappier vineyard extends south of Reims over 75 hectares of vines, spread between the Côte des Bar with its old vines, the Montagne de Reims with its intense pinot noir, and the Côte des Blancs with its finely nuanced chardonnay. This exceptional vineyard of Champagne owes its uniqueness to a limestone-rich terroir combined with maximum sun exposure. Some of Maison Drappier’s parcels are also worked with draft horses.

The wine

Hugo Drappier created the Coteaux Champenois "Trop m'en faut !", a still wine made from fromenteau, a forgotten Champagne grape variety also known as pinot gris. Present in Champagne since the 17th century but rare today, it offers a golden juice and delicate fruity notes.

This cuvée marks a new chapter in Maison Drappier’s commitment to preserving plant diversity in Champagne. The name "Trop m'en faut" is a spoonerism of "Fromenteau", a French wordplay that swaps the syllables of a phrase to produce a new one.

This white wine is produced from a single plot « Les Truchots ». Managed under Ecocert-certified organic agriculture, this south-facing vineyard rests on Kimmeridgian Jurassic soil.

Vinification and aging

50% base wines from the 2017 harvest and 50% from the 2018 harvest. No filtration or fining. Natural malolactic fermentation. Aged for 14 months in demi-muids (50%) in local oak from the Forêt d’Orient.

Blend

Fromenteau (100%).