Agrapart & Fils Champagne Avize Grand Cru Extra Brut Complantee ['22 Base] NV REDBURGUNDYROUNDUP peach and maraschino cherry

peach and maraschino cherry

expressing the crystalline tension and complexity collectors prize in Sommerberg's finest expressions

This is small batch

transparent Chianti — the kind that begs for a second glass and a bowl of pasta

4 botanicals include yomogi (Japanese mugwort)

Agrapart & Fils Champagne Avize Grand Cru Extra Brut Complantee ['22 Base] NV REDBURGUNDYROUNDUP peach and maraschino cherryAgrapart has been estate bottling Champagne in Avize since 1894 a grower before anyone thought to call it that. Complantee is their gorgeous oddball: a single Avize Grand Cru plot co planted with a mix of Champagne's grape varieties Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier, Pinot Blanc, Arbane, and Petit Meslier all interplanted, picked, and fermented together the old fashioned way. Pascal co planted the parcel back in 2003, betting that as the vines age