Need a deep and complex champagne with the clout of Selosse? Try this collaboration between the biodynamic minds of Benoit Marguet, Benoit Lahaye, Vincent Laval, and David Leclapart. Chardonnay from... read more →
Not all champagnes get to be both fascinating and delicious. But this one from 6 parcels of land with an average vine age of 40 years, soils of chalk, limestone... read more →
The tiny Champagne village of Romery is on the right bank of the Marne River, barely north of Epernay. It is there that Aurélien Lurquin reclaimed his family’s vines from... read more →
On the Tarlant property six Georgian qvevri are planted outside and another three from Spain are inside. They are used to make a tiny series of wines under the Argilité... read more →
Reynald comes out of the Claude Courtois lineage of winemaking. That means he doesn’t do carbonic. His wines are traditional, destemmed, crushed and raised in old wood. In the barely... read more →
In the un-chic part of western Champagne, halfway between Reims and Paris, in a town called Crouttes-sur-Marne, not far from where Francoise Bedel has her cuverie, works Jérôme Bourgeois-Diaz. He’s... read more →
Francis asked me to make sure you knew that because this is a solera (25% of 2006 is added to a 75% blend of past vintages dating back to 1997)... read more →
Can only find the photo for the 2005 (which I have not tasted). Here's a fifth dimension, with a marshmallow kicker and a non-citrusy orange rind.