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1688 Grand Blanc

0.00% alcohol, 100% luxe

Always looking for perfection, I wanted to offer to the Cuvée 1688 an ultra-premium packaging. This luxurious creation with no alcohol reveals its full flavor when poured from the classic bottle with its prestigious label. An elegant ruby cap for the Rosé and anthracite gray for the Blanc cover the special cork protected by the “muselet”, wine cage, with its decorated disc.

The objective of 1688 Grand Rosé and 1688 Grand Blanc is to combine full flavor with no alcohol to give dignity to our noble ingredient, the grape.

To accompany food

This is the perfect aperitif. 1688 Grand Blanc is also a delicious accompaniment to white meats (veal escalope, fillet of pork or chicken tagine) and fish (grilled sole, salmon en papillotte, roast monkfish)

IMPRESSIONS

APPEARANCE

Predominantly bright, pale gold with rich golden highlights.

Nose

The nose is balanced with a poised freshness and a developed fragrance of Springtime undergrowth.

PALATE

Initially this well-balanced Cuvée makes a strong impression: great freshness allied to fragrant white and yellow fruit, crispy pear and quince leading to good length on the finish. Delicate and fine bubbles. 

the legend

Paris, 1688. On a beautiful spring day, a young man named Honoré befriended an aged bishop, native of the Châlons-en-Champagne region. Worn-down by time, the old man passed away a few months later. With his last words, he whispered in his friend’s ear the secret recipe for an elixir that he was the only one who possessed it. Honoré swore by all the saints that he would never disclose it to anyone. History does not tell us what happened to him, or what he did with this weighty secret.

But according to a legend, Honoré managed to seduce the most beautiful young maiden by following the old bishop’s recipe to the letter and so, creating an elixir to arouse her passion. Jealous men accused him of witchcraft. One morning, tired of being relentlessly attacked, Honoré and his beloved disappeared. Nobody ever saw them again.

In 1928, a sealed envelope, yellowed by centuries gone by, was discovered during the restoration of an ancient Parisian building on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. The dusty and almost illegible letter described with great precision a recipe, with no alcohol, based on red and white grapes. It was signed: Honoré. Back then the recipe was considered uninteresting and with no future. So the old envelope ended up in a box... before reappearing in 1988, on the stall of a secondhand bookseller on the banks of the Seine