This Week's Special TUESDAY Tasting
Laurence Ployez Presents her Precise Champagnes
October 27, 2026
5:00 – 6:30 in our office at 1 State Street, 10th Fl, a few doors up from the store. In the branding and selling of champagne there is myth and mystification, and then there is taste and fact. The last time Laurence Ployez was here, tasters found her presentation refreshingly free of the former and full of the latter.
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This Week Tuesday, October 27, 2026 Laurence Ployez In our office at 1 State St, 5 - 6:30pm
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In the branding and selling of champagne there is myth and mystification, and then there is taste and fact. The last time Laurence Ployez was here, tasters found her presentation refreshingly free of the former and full of the latter. The wines were and still are full on the palate with impeccable balance.
We are very happy to welcome her back.
She is a 3rd generation winemaker with 3.5 hectares of Premier Cru and Grand Cru vineyards in Ludes and Maily-Champagne in the Montagne de Reims. She augments her production with long-term relationships with other growers’ equal vineyards of equal quality. Laurence sets out every year to maintain the unique identity of each vintage.
The wines are made with only first press juice. Wines aged in wooden barrels are not filtered, while the rest are lightly filtered. Bottle fermentation happens in a cellar 75 feet down, with bottles arranged sur pointe, or nose down, to maintain freshness and capture each vintage's unique nuance by reducing direct contact with the lees and preventing oxidative effects.
Extra Quality Brut
Fruit only from 1er Cru and Grand Cru vineyards in the Montagne de Reims and Cotes des Blancs. Equal parts Pinot Noir, Meunier, and Chardonnay are aged for 5 years before release with an Extra Brut dosage.
Aroma: delicately herbal, fine acid, rounded fruit, pretty fruit; Mouth: clean, light, fresh, lively, pretty assertive acids, fine mousse; Very Good – Excellent $60, Case $51
Extra Quality Brut Rosé
This wine is half Chardonnay; Pinot Noir and Meunier make up the rest of the blend. Still Pinot Noir from Grand Cru Mailly, aged in oak barrels, is added.
Notes: Rich with dense red strawberry and savory fruit flesh seasoned with fleur de sel. $78, Case $67
2012 Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs
All Chardonnay from Premier and Grand Cru vineyards in the Cote de Blancs and Sezanne.
Notes: Delicate chalky lemon with rays of saline and toasted hazelnuts. Long mineral finish. $125, Case $107
Passion Extra Brut
Blanc de Blancs with 51% of the wine aged in oak barrels with no malolactic fermentation. Multi-vintage blend with a 4g/L dosage.
Aroma: nutty, rather fine, elegant, full, fresh and broad, fresh and layered; Mouth: clean, light and fresh in the mouth, fine acid, fine delineation, precise, long leesy finish, while being lithe and fresh; Excellent - Outstanding v$78, Case $67
Marie Weiss Brut
Premier Cru and Grand Cru fruit. 50% Pinot Noir, 25% Chardonnay and 25% Pinot Meunier
Notes: Green apple and pear with smooth, supple, chalky texture. Biscuity lemon zest, almond, and soft white flowers. $ 45, Case $39
Two other Exceptional Wines Not Tasted
Ployez Jacquemart Cuvee Granite
Aroma: light, fresh, earthy, lightly rich, very delicately earthy; Mouth: clean, rounded fruit, very rich with an earthy, yeasty note, yet fresh, clean fine acid, firm finish, long, layered and complex; Excellent - Outstanding $195, 2 bottles only
2004 Ployez-Jaquemart Liesse d'Harbonville
Aroma: underneath deep barrel notes, it has the house clarity v, ripe and inviting; Mouth: firm, rather rich, intense, light and lithe, bright ; Excellent – Outstanding $189, Case $159
Len Rothenberg
Mix any twelve at their case prices
Attendees at the tasting can purchase any at its case price
Order by phone at 617.367.8605, or reserve here: order@federalwine.com
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