Wirth Michel Champagne Extra Brut Origines NV 042326OFFER From a seven-hectare southwest-facing parcel

From a seven-hectare southwest-facing parcel comes Sauvignon Blanc reimagined—partial barrel fermentation transforms this into a wine led by texture rather than aromatics

From the producer: Grass Widow Bourbon contains a unique high rye mash bill of 36% Rye

Heady herbals

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Wirth Michel Champagne Extra Brut Origines NV 042326OFFER From a seven-hectare southwest-facing parcelMeunier usually gets treated as Champagne's third wheel the workhorse blended in for flesh, rarely credited. The Wirth family, five generations deep in the Coteaux Sud d'pernay villages of Vinay, Moussy and Brugny, build their house wine around it instead: 70% Meunier to 30% Chardonnay, farmed organically, fermented partly in 600 liter barrel with reserve wine held in concrete. Twenty six months on the lees give it depth, and a dosage of just 2 grams