With Le Réserve Extra Brut, dosed at just 5 g/L, the Reims house puts its signature freshness at the service of a champagne conceived for the table rather than for celebration alone.
What if freshness were the new way of thinking about Champagne at the table? That is the question the house of Lanson raises with Le Réserve Extra Brut, a cuvée in which its signature freshness meets an underlying trend: that of champagnes with lower dosage, more precise and resolutely gastronomic. Dosed at just 5 grams per litre, Le Réserve Extra Brut favours a pure expression of the wine — the low dosage is not sought for its own sake, but to reveal the blend, preserve the brightness of the fruit and let the tension characteristic of the Lanson style express itself.
Freshness has always held a central place in the house’s identity. With Le Réserve Extra Brut, it finds a particularly precise interpretation: the fruit of a demanding selection among the terroirs of Champagne, the cuvée is made from wines drawn from 80 crus, including many grands and premiers crus. Dominated by pinot noir, the flagship grape of the Lanson style, the blend finds its balance in the freshness of chardonnay and the roundness of meunier. To this composition are added at least 40% reserve wines, drawn from a vast collection of vintages and perpetual reserves, some of them aged in foudres. After at least five years of ageing in the cellars, depth and maturity thus enter into dialogue with the freshness of the wine.
This is the approach summed up by Hervé Dantan, the house’s cellar master: “With Le Réserve Extra Brut, we wished to express the Lanson style in its purest form. The low dosage is not an end in itself; it serves the blend and the identity of the house.” A philosophy of precision rather than demonstration, in which every parameter — grape varieties, reserve, dosage — is placed at the service of a single aim of clarity.
This freshness and tension give the cuvée a genuine gastronomic vocation. From the impromptu lunch to the more sophisticated dinner, from plant-based plates to briny products, from contemporary cuisine to the great classics, Le Réserve Extra Brut finds its place at the table naturally: its freshness accompanies the dish without erasing it, and its low dosage allows the precision of the ingredients to be showcased. Among the pairings imagined around the cuvée are a bluefin tuna tartare with crushed hazelnuts and yuzu citrus pearls, or a poultry supreme with morel sauce and chestnut shavings.
Founded in 1760 in Reims, Lanson is one of the oldest Champagne houses. Drawing on a family heritage and unique know-how, it is respect for nature, attention to others and creativity that have guided the women and men of the house for more than 260 years. Hervé Dantan carefully crafts there elegant wines characterised by vitality, fruitiness and an inimitable freshness — a signature that Le Réserve Extra Brut now, with this launch, reaffirms in its most refined version.
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