Federal Wine & Spirits

Taste Legras + Haas Champagnes with Winemaker Jerome Legras

at Saltie Girl, Boston - Tues, Feb 25, 2025 at 5:30PM. $25 pp (applicable to purchase), reservations required. Read on...

February 25, 2025

 

 

The Legras & Haas were so popular in our December champagne tasting that we wanted to provide opportunity to taste the complete range available here, with Jerome Legras, one of the brothers in charge of the Domaine. Saltie Girl will provide champagne-friendly light bites.

 

Based in Chouilly, the northern-most grand cru of Champagne’s  Cote  de Blancs, the Legras and Haas estate was founded by  Francois Legras and  wife Brigitte Haas in 1991. Today it is run by their sons Olivier, Rémi and Jérôme.

 

All the Legras & Haas Blanc de Blancs wines, from the non-vintage Brut to the vintage single-vineyard Les Sillons, are 100% estate-grown. For their compelling and lauded blends tier, including Intuition Brut, Brut Rosé, the family uses both estate fruit and grapes purchased from long-time partners in Aÿ and Leuvrigny. The Legras family act as stewards of their vines, respecting and maintaining the ecosystem so they may deliver dynamic wines that are aromatic, graceful and approachable in their youth and retain poise and freshness while developing complexity and depth with age.

 

Legras Champagne Intuition 

The nose, both vinous and precise, is marked by a basket of white fruit with notes of peach, grape, kiwi, and an olfactory precision provided by cardamom. The mouth, with assertive bubbles, is tasty and full. The dosage, although generous, is perfect, supported by a fine bitterness. Gault yet Millau

$165, Sale $55

 

Legras Intuition Brut Rose 

This rosé gives pride of place to fruit, with an uninhibited aromatic palette ade of cotton candy, English candy, violet and raspberry. On the palate, the sharp bubbles draw a saline and palatable structure. Gault & Millau

 

Cassis, Pink Lady apple and citrus blossom aromas. The palate reveals maturity, deep plum, herb and strawberry notes, with great acidity and a beautiful, smoothly textured mousse. Lovely intensity and persistence. Decanter

$80, Sale 1$68, Magnums available

 

Legras Champagne Blanc de Blancs 

With a very gastronomic dimension, this Chardonnay, built around citrus fruits, yellow fruits such as mirabelle plum andpeach, , is immediately indulging. With notes of yeast The substance is dense, full of sun, with sapid bubbles and a verygourmande finish. Gault & Millau

 

Charming with aromas of jasmine, dandelion and lily flowers. Lemon macaron and apple tart, a bit of autolytic character and ground almond richness. Composed, balanced and zesty with a pleasing texture. Satisfyingly spicy on the finish. Decanter

 

Very nice table champagne, broad, vinous, to the point of sensuality but truly "blanc de blancs" in its finesse and freshness.The finish gains in character with iodine notes and fine bitterness. Classic style but perfectly successful, which is not within just any winemaker’s ability. Bettane & Desseauve

$70, Sale $59

 

Legras Blanc De Blancs Les Sillons Grand Cru 2015

A single vineyard in Chouilly, the wines sees five years on the lees

 

Voluptuous nose of guava, Mirabelle plum, cotton candy and blossom. Delicious on the palate with a gentle mousse and fresh structure, chalky finish. Decanter

 

Although at its core, this is a dry Champagne, its aging has allowed it to smooth out to give a textured and ripe wine. The wine is impressive, complex and complete. Drink now. Wine Enthusiast

$150, Sale $128, Magnums available

 

$25 per person., applicable to a purchase of wine

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Len Rothenberg

 

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