CHAMPAGNE MARIE DEMETS

By Linden Wilkie, 22nd September 2022

After a generation of growing grapes for a major Champagne house, Alain and Marie Demets debuted their own label – Marie Demets in 1986. The domaine, located in Gyé-sur-Seine in the Côte des Bar, grew to 10 hectares in 15 plots across the villages Gyé-sur-Seine, Neuville-sur-Seine, Courteron, Polisy and Buxeuil along the Seine Valley. The soils here are Kimmeridgian and Portlandian, like we find in Chablis. 

The house wine is Brut Tradition, a lovely 100% Pinot Noir, clean, bright, full of freshness and fruit, it is round-textured and pleasing. An ideal aperitif. Although there is an easiness to this wine, there is a good proportion of reserve wine blended with the base year, giving it some pleasing depth too.

Alain and Marie’s son Pierre joined in 2008 and took over in 2014, and was joined by his wife Mathilde in 2017. Together they have brought some new ideas – and new small cuvées to the range. We thought they were very special, and are pleased to share them with you.

The first is 2017 Intransigeance, a blend of 56% Pinot Noir and 44% Chardonnay, it is very low dosage (1g/l) very pure and precise wine, crisp, long and gently chalky in texture, very finely balanced. It is a contemporary style Champagne, with the intensity for gastronomic parings suited for delicate dishes.

Then, two very special wines, both 100% Chardonnay and both having had primary fermentation in single large fût de chêne (oak casks). 2017 ‘La Fôret’ is an extra brut, the fuller, rounder, grander feeling of the two, with good freshness, and a saline-like note, while 2017 ‘Fins’ is tighter, more reductive (almost Roulot or Coche-like), taut and intense with a lemon-like citrus flavour.

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Vintage Wine Bottle Size Unit of sale Qty of unit Qty of btl Btl price (HKD) Score Location
NV Champagne Marie Demets - Brut Tradition 750 BOTTLE 72 72 320 - HK
NV Champagne Marie Demets - Brut Tradition 750 BOTTLE 3 3 320 - SHOP
2017 Champagne Marie Demets - Fins 750 BOTTLE 81 81 1,100 - HK
2017 Champagne Marie Demets - Fins 750 BOTTLE 2 2 1,100 - SHOP
2018 Champagne Marie Demets - Fins 750 BOTTLE 120 120 1,100 - HK
2017 Champagne Marie Demets - Intransigeance 750 BOTTLE 120 120 600 - HK
2017 Champagne Marie Demets - Intransigeance 750 BOTTLE 3 3 600 - SHOP
2018 Champagne Marie Demets - Intransigeance 750 BOTTLE 120 120 600 - HK
2017 Champagne Marie Demets - La Foret 750 BOTTLE 117 117 1,050 - HK
2017 Champagne Marie Demets - La Foret 750 BOTTLE 4 4 1,050 - SHOP
2018 Champagne Marie Demets - La Foret 750 BOTTLE 120 120 1,050 - HK
NV Champagne Marie Demets - Brut Tradition
750 ml BOTTLE HK HKD 320 / BTL 72 BTL available
Bottle size
750
Qty of unit
72
Qty of btl
72
Btl price (HKD)
320
Score
-
Location
HK
NV Champagne Marie Demets - Brut Tradition
750 ml BOTTLE SHOP HKD 320 / BTL 3 BTL available
Bottle size
750
Qty of unit
3
Qty of btl
3
Btl price (HKD)
320
Score
-
Location
SHOP
2017 Champagne Marie Demets - Fins
750 ml BOTTLE HK HKD 1,100 / BTL 81 BTL available
Bottle size
750
Qty of unit
81
Qty of btl
81
Btl price (HKD)
1,100
Score
-
Location
HK
2017 Champagne Marie Demets - Fins
750 ml BOTTLE SHOP HKD 1,100 / BTL 2 BTL available
Bottle size
750
Qty of unit
2
Qty of btl
2
Btl price (HKD)
1,100
Score
-
Location
SHOP
2018 Champagne Marie Demets - Fins
750 ml BOTTLE HK HKD 1,100 / BTL 120 BTL available
Bottle size
750
Qty of unit
120
Qty of btl
120
Btl price (HKD)
1,100
Score
-
Location
HK
2017 Champagne Marie Demets - Intransigeance
750 ml BOTTLE HK HKD 600 / BTL 120 BTL available
Bottle size
750
Qty of unit
120
Qty of btl
120
Btl price (HKD)
600
Score
-
Location
HK
2017 Champagne Marie Demets - Intransigeance
750 ml BOTTLE SHOP HKD 600 / BTL 3 BTL available
Bottle size
750
Qty of unit
3
Qty of btl
3
Btl price (HKD)
600
Score
-
Location
SHOP
2018 Champagne Marie Demets - Intransigeance
750 ml BOTTLE HK HKD 600 / BTL 120 BTL available
Bottle size
750
Qty of unit
120
Qty of btl
120
Btl price (HKD)
600
Score
-
Location
HK
2017 Champagne Marie Demets - La Foret
750 ml BOTTLE HK HKD 1,050 / BTL 117 BTL available
Bottle size
750
Qty of unit
117
Qty of btl
117
Btl price (HKD)
1,050
Score
-
Location
HK
2017 Champagne Marie Demets - La Foret
750 ml BOTTLE SHOP HKD 1,050 / BTL 4 BTL available
Bottle size
750
Qty of unit
4
Qty of btl
4
Btl price (HKD)
1,050
Score
-
Location
SHOP
2018 Champagne Marie Demets - La Foret
750 ml BOTTLE HK HKD 1,050 / BTL 120 BTL available
Bottle size
750
Qty of unit
120
Qty of btl
120
Btl price (HKD)
1,050
Score
-
Location
HK
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