Made from a blend of premier and grand crus grapes, the black grapes are selected from Mailly and Ludes and the white from Bisseuil, Cuis, Ludes, Puisieulx, Taissy, Grauve or Vertus. Their philosophy is to work by hand, from the beginning of the growing season until the grapes are harvested. The blend is dominated by black grapes (60%) Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier, which provide pronounced richness, complexity and roundness. Made using only pure cuvées (first presses), the composition rarely uses reserve wines and only when the harvest does not meet the house's vintage standards. A light filtration is used for wines produced in vats, but no filtration is used on wines aged in wooden barrels. All of their cuvees are aged for over six years in a 25-meter-deep cellar and aged for at least six years upside down— sur pointe. This enables the wine to benefit from the anti-oxidative nature of lees, while the resulting product remains lively and fresh with extremely fine bubbles. Ployez generally disgorges their Champagnes to order and only a low dosage of sugar (approximately 5 gr/L only) is added giving greater expression to all the flavours of their Extra Quality Brut.
