Champagne Ployez Jacquemart

History

Ployez-Jacquemart is a family House created in 1930 by Marcel Ployez and his wife Yvonne Jacquemart.

The whole essence of Ployez-Jacquemart rests in our continual search for excellence, our understanding of the Champagne terroir and our abilities to craft truly fine wines. These skills have been passed down through three generations. Our respect for this noble heritage is the cornerstone of our approach to Champagne production.

Vine

We work our own predominantly Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier vineyards in the Premier and Grands Crus villages of Ludes and Mailly Champagne, Villedommange, and Vertus. Tremendous care is taken in working these vines by hand; when necessary, we will green harvest to ensure the overall quality of the final harvest.

Long standing relationships with other wine growers, primarily in the Grands Crus Chardonnay villages, help us improve our assemblage and ensure consistent quality year on year.

Wine Making

Strict rules are followed each year to ensure that the very best is made of each harvest. We use a blend of grapes from our own Grands Crus vineyards, and produce from a handful of carefully selected wine growers, many of whom we have been working with for 30 years. All the grapes are hand-picked and sorted by variety, cru and specific vineyard – this forms the basis for the pressing at the estate. No expense is spared; only the best  juice from the first pressing is considered of sufficient quality for our use. Laurence Ployez’ s meticulous attention to every detail is evident at every stage of the process. Grape musts are left to settle not once but twice before fermentation. The wine is moved frequently from one vat to another to ensure a high level of oxygenation; only light filtration is used for wines produced in vats but none at all for those vinified or aged in wooden barrels or foudres.

Ageing

When it comes to wine making, the use of traditional yeasts, combined with very slow bottle fermentation in our (10°clesius) 25 metres deep cellars, give our wines extremely fine bubbles. With the exception of L.d’Harbonville, none of our assemblages are written in stone, each year is a new challenge to make the very best of each harvest. At Ployez-Jacquemart we feel that Champagne is no different to other long established wine growing areas like Bordeaux or Burgundy and we follow a very strict policy of “quality not quantity”. Our mission is to leave the structure of each wine intact, letting the true character and personality of the harvest shine through. When the time comes to disgorge, after up to 12 years in our cellars, only a very minimal “dosage” is added , typically 3-4g/litre. This method helps us to produce aromatic fruity wines with a very clean palate and a long finish whilst paying close attention to the fine balance between alcohol/acidity and complexity/freshness.