Ruinart Dom Ruinart Blanc de Blancs 2013

Dom Ruinart Blanc de Blancs 2013 is where Ruinart’s long-standing Chardonnay identity reaches its prestige tier. The wine is 100% Chardonnay, but the release is not built around a single village: approximately 70% of the fruit comes from the Côte des Blancs and 30% from the Montagne de Reims, with Grand and Premier Cru vineyards forming the source base. That geographical split is central to the bottle. Ruinart’s interpretation of Chardonnay has always been broader than one narrow Côte des Blancs template, and the 2013 prestige release makes that especially clear by combining two major Champagne sectors within one vintage. The cellar treatment is equally specific. The 2013 release underwent malolactic fermentation, was tiraged under cork and spent at least nine years on the lees. Dosage is listed at 5.5 g/L. Those details give the bottle a precise production identity and separate it clearly from the house’s multi-vintage Blanc de Blancs. Ruinart itself was founded in Reims in 1729 and is generally recognised as the oldest established Champagne house. Chardonnay has become the defining grape of the modern maison, running from the regular Blanc de Blancs through to Dom Ruinart and the newer Blanc Singulier series. The prestige cuvée therefore feels less like a separate luxury exercise and more like the most concentrated expression of a theme already present throughout the range. For someone choosing within Ruinart, the hierarchy is easy to understand. The standard Blanc de Blancs is the direct introduction to the house’s Chardonnay style; Dom Ruinart Blanc de Blancs 2013 moves into a vintage-specific, long-aged and more selectively sourced expression. The exact year matters. This is not a generic Dom Ruinart description that can be transferred from one release to another. The 2013 bottle has its own origin split, cellar treatment, lees-ageing period and dosage. That makes Dom Ruinart Blanc de Blancs 2013 a particularly coherent prestige Champagne: 100% Chardonnay, a clearly defined 2013 vintage, Grand and Premier Cru sourcing across two regions, and extended cellar ageing that gives the release a distinct place above the house’s standing Chardonnay wines.