Launch of the Art Édition of a new vintage cuvée “Joy of Terroir”
A bold approach to vintage champagne, the link between terroir and precision oenology.
“This new cuvée reflects our innovative approach to vintage champagne. Each year, we take up the challenge of selecting the best plots in the Grands Crus of Avize, Ambonnay and Aÿ, to capture the climatic variations specific to each vintage. This is a challenging exercise, which demonstrates our determination to combine terroir and precision œnology.”
Guillaume Lété, Cellar Master
Inspired by the family’s Grands Vins, the Cellar Master of Barons De Rothschild Champagne takes up the challenge of creating a vintage cuvée each year by blending the same 3 Grands Crus, chosen for their complementarity and faithful to the House style. In 2018, just 80 ares were selected: 40 ares in Avize, 20 ares in Ambonnay and 20 ares in Aÿ.
The bold choice to blend the same 3 Grands Crus each year is based on the desire to experiment and bear witness, over time, to the climatological variations experienced by these 3 Grands Crus. To celebrate the uniqueness of the terroir, our House has the honor of collaborating with the leading Chinese Ink-painting Master Li Jin for this Triptyque 2018 Art Limited Edition.
2018 in Champagne was marked by a succession of exceptional weather conditions. The campaign began with a wet winter followed by a warm, stormy spring, which rapidly accelerated vine growth. The dry, sunny summer allowed the grapes to ripen to perfection, ideal for the harvest at the end of August.
As a result, 2018 produced an abundant harvest, both in terms of quantity and quality, revealing the complexity and richness of the cuvées produced from this vintage.
Terroirs:
50% Chardonnay from Avize
25% Pinot Noir from Ambonnay
25% Pinot Noir from Aÿ
Ageing:
100% stainless steel for 9 months then in bottles on fine lees for 5 years
Dosage:
Extra Brut, 5 g/L
Art Edition:
Only 500 bottles Art Limited Edition Worldwide
And 16 bottles of A.P. Edition
About Artist Li Jin
Li Jin, the renowned Ink Master of Chinese Contemporary Art, born in 1958, lives and works in Beijing and Tianjin China.
Mr. Li Jin’s current solo exhibition, Simple Pleasures: Li Jin with Roger Law, was held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University from 4May to 17 November 2024. His Art Project, Li Jin in Oxford, is exhibited at Platform China Beijing. In 2022, he held a solo exhibition, Meat Eaters Don’t Despise — Li Jin Shunde Tour at the Shunde He Art Museum. In 2015, his large-scale retrospective exhibition, The Life of the Unknown: Thirty Years of Li Jin, was held at the Long Museum in Shanghai. His works have been collected worldwide by famous public museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ; the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford ; the State Museum of New South Wales, Australia ; the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, the He Art Museum, Guangdong , the Hong Kong Museum of Art, and the Wuhan Art Museum China.
Li Jin is best known for his lush and colorful depictions of sensory pleasures of banquet scenes and anecdotal vignettes. His skillful technique and fluid brushwork are freely reflected in his paintings on paper which can be neat or arbitrary, clear or abstract, detailed or bold. A few brushstrokes can bring a painting to life. For Li Jin, daily life is not manifested in painting, but through painting, and painting itself is life through painting, and painting itself is life.
Mr. Li Jin graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 1983,and was named Ink Artist of the Year by AAC Art China in 2013, and Artist of the Year by the authoritative art magazine Art Finance Art Power List in 2014.