Champagne Hélène Vertus VV Brut Nature, Champagne, France (2019) Floral Terranes • 95% Syrah

• 95% Syrah

70% whole cluster

the wine is put in 3500-liter Slavonian oak barrels for a year and a half on its lees

and then some added time aging in bottle gives extraordinary texture and nuance to the final wine

Champagne Hélène Vertus VV Brut Nature, Champagne, France (2019) Floral Terranes • 95% SyrahPierre Hugot is a name you wil only hear more and more as the years come. Somehow at only 23 he's worked Comte Liger Belair, Chavy Chouet, Jean Marc Roulot, and Vaccelli, before coming back home to the family estate to over a small holding in the Cotes de Blancs. His inaugural release was a tiny bottling from the 17 vintage from old vines in Avize. This wine was poured at A Very Corkhoarder Champagne Special on Thursday, December 13th and will be