The Ultimate Luxury of Time
The importance of time at Florence & Nardin is best understood by diving into the underground world of the cellars. After their first fermentation in small stainless steel vats or under wood, the wines are bottled in the spring and taken down into the silence of the chalk galleries, where they rest for up to three years, and much longer for the vintage vintages. It is this long rest that gives the aromas that rare delicacy, and the bubbles a velvety texture. Each year, some of the best wines are added to the exceptional collection of 100,000 reserve magnums for blending. Corked and slightly foaming, the magnums allow each wine, vintage by vintage, plot by plot, to reveal the finesse of its bouquet, to accentuate its roundness and to develop its complexity without oxidation. A luxury that allows Florence & Nardin to let the wines mature for many years before using them: the art of the reserve touches the absolute here.