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95 pts Vinous
The 2014 Extra-Brut Millésime is fabulous. Rich, deep and expansive, the Millésime soars out of the glass, showing magnificent concentration and layers of flavor that build into the nuanced, palate staining finish. For readers who have not discovered these wines yet, the 2014 is a great place to start. The 2014 is a blend of 70% Meunier and 30% Pinot Noir. Bottled with no dosage. Disgorged: March, 2021.
- By Antonio Galloni on November 2022

Champagne Dehours is located in Vallée de la Marne.  Located in Cerseuil, this 16-hectare Domaine's holdings, divided among over 40 parcels, are situated on the left bank of the Marne, on one of its tributaries, encompassing a wide variety of expositions. Rich in clay and subject to landslides, these steep slopes are founded on limestone, not chalk, with a band of sand at around 120 meters in altitude, making for similarly diverse geology. Meunier is king in this sector, and the village is a popular source for Maison Krug. It's in this context that Jérôme Dehours crafts his complex, flavorsome, vinous Champagnes.

"The 2014 Extra-Brut Millésime is fabulous. "  95 pts Vinous Media

"His latest releases are all well worth following" . . . "everything reviewed here comes warmly recommended.”  – William Kelley, Wine Advocate

Champagne Dehours Millesime Brut 2014  VM95
Vallee de la Marne, Champagne

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Cépage: 70% Meunier, 30% Pinot Noir
Village/Vineyard: Port à Bison; Les Gréves (Meunier), Maisoncelle (Pinot Noir)
Malo: Yes
Fermentation & Élevage: Meunier in fuder, Pinot Noir in stainless steel
Sur Latte: 70 Months
Dosage:   0 g/l

From Wine Advocate
“Located in Cerseuil, this 16-hectare domaine's holdings, divided among over 40 parcels, are situated on the left bank of the Marne, on one of its tributaries, encompassing a wide variety of expositions. Rich in clay and subject to landslides, these steep slopes are founded on limestone, not chalk, with a band of sand at around 120 meters in altitude, making for similarly diverse geology. Meunier is king in this sector, and the village is a popular source for Maison Krug. It's in this context that Jérôme Dehours crafts his complex, flavorsome, vinous Champagnes.

In 1999, after studies in Beaune, Dehours introduced the Domaine’s first oak barrels and began isolating single vineyards. Today, he cultivates under the vine mechanically (with one complete cultivation per year); picks late with lots of sorting when it's required; and increasingly ferments in larger 500-liter barrels rather than their smaller counterparts, retaining lots of solids to nourish the vins clairs during their élevage.

After pushing his wines in a rather more patinated, oxidative direction in the last few years, he's reining things in: subtly increasing the use of sulfites and refreshing his solera of reserve wines to avoid falling into extremes. His latest releases are all well worth following, and the quality he achieved in the 2017 vintage, especially challenging for Meunier, is testament to the seriousness that readers can expect at this address. I'll be hoping to catch up with his latest lieu-dit bottlings in the near future, but for now, everything reviewed here comes warmly recommended.”  – William Kelley

About Champagne Dehours

Region: Vallée de la Marne
Premier Cru Sites: Mareuil-le-Port, Oeuilly, Cerseuil and Troissy
Total Vineyard Holdings: 14.5 hectares
Annual Production: 7,500 cases
Vines: 70% Meunier, 20% Chardonnay, 10% Pinot Noir
Dehours (Mareuil-le-Port)

Jérôme Dehours farms 42 different vineyards in three distinct villages on the southern side of the Marne River. Jérôme’s 14.5 hectares are split between the villages of Mareuil-le-Port, Oeuilly, Cerseuil and Troissy, in this quiet corner of the Marne. This area is just south of the Marne river at Châtillon-sur-Marne and Cuisles, where Cédric Moussé produces his exquisite wines. This area, the Vallée de Flagot, is named for the small river which has carved out a winding valley called Le Flagot, to meet the Marne River. Geologically, the soils are quite different than the Grand Vallée around Aÿ, the Montagne de Reims and the Côte des Blancs. Here you find different strata of clays over Marne deposit, which is limestone, and not the belemnite chalk you’re likely to find in the northern Côte des Blancs, for example. Limestone is a sedimentary rock made up of two major types of minerals – calcite and aragonite, which when combined form calcium carbonate. Chalk is a form of limestone that includes a higher proportion of calcite. Both are formed from the skeletal deposits of marine organisms; chalk is made up microorganisms and limestone is generally from larger organisms.