Cattier Brut Blanc de Blancs Premier Cru

Cattier Brut Blanc de Blancs Premier Cru is the most direct Chardonnay-focused bottle in the current Cattier range. The current release is 100% Chardonnay, includes 12% reserve wines, spends more than three years on lees and is listed at 6 g/L dosage. Those details place it firmly as a serious house cuvée rather than simply a varietal side note. Cattier is a family Champagne house based in Chigny-les-Roses on the Montagne de Reims, with vineyard roots traced to 1625 and commercial Champagne production under the family name beginning in 1918. Today the house farms around 33 hectares, principally around Chigny-les-Roses, Ludes and Rilly-la-Montagne, giving it a substantial Premier Cru vineyard base alongside the famous Clos du Moulin. For buyers approaching Cattier for the first time, Brut Premier Cru remains the broadest introduction because it shows the house through its core blending and reserve-wine approach. Brut Blanc de Blancs Premier Cru is the logical next step when Chardonnay is the priority. It narrows the focus to a single grape while keeping the wine within the house’s Premier Cru framework. The reserve-wine component and extended lees ageing are useful parts of that buying proposition. They give the cuvée a more developed structural context than a simple young Blanc de Blancs, while the 6 g/L dosage on the current release places it within a classic Brut register rather than the house’s zero-dosage Brut Nature Premier Cru. Within the wider portfolio, the wine also provides a helpful contrast with Cattier’s Meunier Millésime and the much more site-specific Clos du Moulin wines. It is less about a single vineyard than about giving Chardonnay a clear, dedicated role inside the house range. For a mixed Cattier case, this is the bottle to choose when you want the producer’s Chardonnay side without moving into a prestige clos or special edition. It combines straightforward grape identity with reserve-wine depth, meaningful lees ageing and a clearly defined Premier Cru position.