Description
The wine
Les Années — the years. The solera method draws from a perpetual reserve that accumulates across consecutive harvests, each year’s new wine added to the oldest wine, which is never fully drawn off. The result is a wine that contains threads of every harvest going back to the beginning of the solera — complexity and depth that a single vintage cannot achieve.
Adrien ages the solera exclusively in old oak foudre — the large-format barrels that give the reserve wines their particular texture and depth without imposing obvious oak character. Zero dosage. Grand Cru Verzy fruit from massale selection vines throughout. The most demanding and most rewarding wine in the range — one for buyers who have explored the single-parcel cuvées and want to understand what the accumulation of years produces from this terroir.
Vineyard & vintage details
Producer: Champagne Adrien Renoir
Cuvée: Solera ‘Les Années’
Village: Verzy · Grand Cru · Montagne de Reims
Method: Solera — perpetual reserve · multiple consecutive harvests
Farming: Organic — certified 2020
Vinification: Old oak foudre · zero dosage
Format: 750ml
Adrien Renoir farms four hectares in Grand Cru Verzy on the Montagne de Reims — three specific lieu-dits of massale selection vines planted between 1961 and 1971. He took over from his father Vincent in 2014 and converted the domaine to organic certification by 2020. Everything is fermented and aged in barrel — old oak barriques and large oak foudres for the reserve wines.
