The producer
The oldest Champagne house of all is now the rather quieter, and unpretentious member of the LVMH portfolio. While it’s situated behind more illustrious-looking Champagne Houses it sits above some of the deepest and stunning crayeres in Reims. A quiet achiever perhaps.
The house style is delicate and reductive with a purity and crispness of structure throughout the range that is very distinctively Ruinart particularly in the LVMH collection. And makes the range perfect for ageing further – from non-vintage through to the prestige vintage Blanc de Bancs.
The wine
The pinnacle of the Ruinart range is draped with the named “Dom Ruinart”, named after Thierry Ruinart, a native of Champagne who became a renowned scholarly monk and was the uncle, and a great inspiration to Nicolas Ruinart, the founder of Champagne Ruinart.
Drawn from only Grand Cru vineyards on both the best villages of the Cotes-de-Blancs and parts of villages of the Montaigne-de-Reims that are better suited to Chardonnay than Pinot. The wine spends the best part of a decade or more on lees before disgorgement, showing beautiful integration and maturity balanced by a core of refined minerality. Further bottle age only adds to the complexity and beauty of Dom Ruinart as it has the structure and integrity to age for many years.
