Tarlant
Tarlant is a small but highly prestigious maison, rooted in the Champagne region since 1687, when the founder Pierre Tarlant began cultivating the vine. A century later, the Tarlant family moved to Oeuilly, in the Vallée de la Marne, where they contributed, with the first Cuvée Tarlant of the 1920s, to the so-called Rêvolution Champenoise, that is, to the prestige and excellence of French bubbles in the world.
Today, the Tarlant family owns 14 hectares of vineyard divided into 60 prestigious parcels, among which stands out a plot on its own roots (Les Sables), which survived the phylloxera epidemic thanks to the very sandy soil. Benoît Tarlant, representative of the XIV generation of the Tarlant family, cultivates these vineyards with great environmental sensitivity, attention to micro-territoriality and the peculiarities of each single parcel, demonstrating great skills as a vigneron and oenologist. In the cellar, separate vinifications in barrique are preferred, but steel and cement tanks are also used.cement. There is a tendency not to carry out malolactic fermentation and reserve wines are kept in barrel.
The Champagnes of Tarlant are rigorous, artisanal, and complex, but they are not harsh or difficult. Tarlant was a pioneer, in the 1990s, of zero dosage, and today the entire production, limited to just over 100,000 bottles a year, consists of pas dosé and extra brut. The style of these Champagnes reveals a wise and well-balanced use of wood and the enhancement of each micro-terroir: an elegant and balanced style that preserves all the charm of great Champagnes.
Tarlant is a small but highly prestigious maison, rooted in the Champagne region since 1687, when the founder Pierre Tarlant began cultivating the vine. A century later, the Tarlant family moved to Oeuilly, in the Vallée de la Marne, where they contributed, with the first Cuvée Tarlant of the 1920s, to the so-called Rêvolution Champenoise, that is, to the prestige and excellence of French bubbles in the world.
Today, the Tarlant family owns 14 hectares of vineyard divided into 60 prestigious parcels, among which stands out a plot on its own roots (Les Sables), which survived the phylloxera epidemic thanks to the very sandy soil. Benoît Tarlant, representative of the XIV generation of the Tarlant family, cultivates these vineyards with great environmental sensitivity, attention to micro-territoriality and the peculiarities of each single parcel, demonstrating great skills as a vigneron and oenologist. In the cellar, separate vinifications in barrique are preferred, but steel and cement tanks are also used.cement. There is a tendency not to carry out malolactic fermentation and reserve wines are kept in barrel.
The Champagnes of Tarlant are rigorous, artisanal, and complex, but they are not harsh or difficult. Tarlant was a pioneer, in the 1990s, of zero dosage, and today the entire production, limited to just over 100,000 bottles a year, consists of pas dosé and extra brut. The style of these Champagnes reveals a wise and well-balanced use of wood and the enhancement of each micro-terroir: an elegant and balanced style that preserves all the charm of great Champagnes.
