Collet Aÿ Grand Cru 2019

Collet Aÿ Grand Cru 2019 is the most site-specific wine in the current Collet range, taking a house known for broad grower-owned sourcing and narrowing the picture to one vintage, one grape, one parcel and one village. The wine is 100% Pinot Noir from La Côte du Moulin in Aÿ, with 5% barrel vinification and a dosage of 7 g/L for the 2019 release. That precision makes it unusually revealing in the context of Collet. The house was founded in Aÿ in 1921 by a collective of winegrowers and remains grower-owned today. Its technical team works with a far wider vineyard base than a single estate, allowing wines such as Origine Brut to draw on around one hundred crus. Aÿ Grand Cru 2019 deliberately does the opposite. The contrast is useful for buyers. Art Déco Brut is the clearest introduction to Collet’s central house style, while Blanc de Blancs and Blanc de Noirs isolate grape variety within a broader sourcing model. Millésime 2016 moves into declared-vintage territory, but Aÿ Grand Cru 2019 goes further by tying the wine directly to La Côte du Moulin and to Pinot Noir alone. This is therefore the bottle to choose when the attraction is place rather than blending breadth. It connects Collet back to the village where the house began and gives the cooperative-owned maison a much more intimate expression than its core cuvées. The technical figures should stay attached to this exact 2019 release rather than be treated as permanent specifications for any future edition. What is fixed here is the identity: Aÿ Grand Cru, La Côte du Moulin, Pinot Noir and the 2019 vintage. For collectors wanting to understand how Collet moves from large-scale blending to a single-parcel statement, this is the most direct and informative bottle in the present range.