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Carré Frères

Champagne Carré Frères Le Champ des Maladries 2021

Champagne Carré Frères Le Champ des Maladries 2021

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Aden here, this producer is one of the most exciting new wine makers in Champagne. This is the second vintage they have made and the wines are showing absolutely amazingly!

Champagne Carré Frères Le Champ des Maladries 2021 is made by Domaine Carré Frères, a grower-producer with family roots going back to the 1890s. The grapes come from two parcels: Champ Jeanvrai in Trépail Premier Cru, planted in 1964, and Les Maladries in Verzy Grand Cru, planted in 2005. The wine is a blend of 60% Chardonnay and 40% Pinot Noir, designed to balance finesse with structure.

It was fermented and aged for about eleven months in oak barrels, with malolactic fermentation completed, and then matured further in bottle on the lees for around thirty months before being disgorged in December 2024. The dosage is extra-brut, around 1.2 g/L, keeping the style dry and taut. Production is very limited, at just under six thousand bottles, with a small number of magnums also made.

On the nose it shows white flowers, black fruit, gentle oak sweetness and a hint of spice. The palate is fine and lively, with a chalky minerality and saline finish, lifted by notes of grapefruit and blackcurrant. It carries a sense of precision and tension while remaining generous in texture.

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Tasting Notes

Green Apple, Citrus, White Flowers and Limestone

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Carré Frères

Style: Winery

Country: France

Region: Côte des Bar, Champagne

Carré Frères feels wonderfully old-school in the way only small Champagne growers really can. Family-run, rooted in the vineyards and focused on proper traditional winemaking rather than giant luxury branding exercises, this is Champagne that still feels connected to farming and place rather than celebrity sponsorship deals.

Based in the Côte des Bar area of southern Champagne, the house works primarily with Pinot Noir, the grape that absolutely thrives in this slightly warmer, more Burgundian part of the region. The wines tend to carry lovely ripe fruit, soft texture and a richer style than some of the sharper, more austere Champagnes further north.

What’s especially appealing about growers like Carré Frères is the sense of personality that comes through in the wines. Smaller Champagne houses often produce bottles with far more individual character because they’re working directly with their own vineyards rather than blending massive volumes from across the region. You taste more vintage variation, more local identity and more of the grower’s own style.

The wines themselves lean elegant and approachable, balancing crisp citrus and orchard fruit with gentle brioche richness from ageing on lees. Proper celebratory Champagne, but without feeling flashy or overdesigned. The sort of bottle that works equally well at weddings, long lunches or random Tuesday evenings that accidentally escalated.

There’s also something very satisfying about supporting smaller Champagne producers in general. Behind every bottle is usually a family spending most of the year driving tractors through cold vineyards rather than attending fashion week.

One of our favourites!