Oudiette Les Hautes Sources Souris

Oudiette Les Hautes Sources Souris shows the estate from a Pinot Noir perspective rather than the Chardonnay-led side that many buyers encounter first. The current release is based on the 2021 harvest, with 19% perpetual reserve drawn from 2018 to 2020, a dosage of 1.5 g/L and an October 2024 disgorgement. Those details matter because Oudiette organises its wines around individual parcels and release-specific reserve histories. The domaine uses the 1821 Napoleonic cadastre to identify and name its sites, so the parcel is not decorative branding: it is the organising principle of the range. The estate is based in Beaunay in the Coteaux du Petit Morin and works four hectares, principally in Beaunay with additional vines in Celles-lès-Condé and Étoges. Chardonnay, Meunier and Pinot Noir make up most of the vineyard, with a small planting of Pinot Gris. Maxime Oudiette joined his parents Pascal and Sylvie in 2012 and, from 2015, pushed the domaine further towards the parcel-led structure seen today. Les Hautes Sources Souris is the bottle to choose when you want that philosophy expressed through Pinot Noir. Les Gras d’Huile is the more obvious first introduction to the domaine because it centres on a principal Beaunay Chardonnay parcel and the house’s perpetual-reserve method. Les Hautes Sources Souris shifts the focus while preserving the same parcel-specific logic. The farming follows the same site-conscious approach. Oudiette describes working without synthetic pesticides, cultivating beneath the vines while retaining spontaneous vegetation between rows, and using copper, sulphur and plant preparations for protection. Since 2024, all of the domaine’s Chardonnay has been certified organic, while biodynamic practices, vitiforestry and permaculture form part of the wider vineyard programme. For buyers, the appeal is precision rather than scale. The current bottle gives you an exact harvest base, exact reserve proportion, exact dosage and exact disgorgement, all attached to a named Beaunay Pinot Noir site. Choose it if you want a highly specific grower Champagne where parcel and release history are as important to the identity as grape variety.