Egly-Ouriet Champagne Grand Cru Extra Brut NV [NET] CS20231026 Pinot Meunier and Pinot Noir

Pinot Meunier and Pinot Noir vinified as red wine

Valdespino’s flagship wine is its iconic Fino

and Sansho peppercorn berries

so it lands dry and snappy rather than candied

Egly-Ouriet Champagne Grand Cru Extra Brut NV [NET] CS20231026 Pinot Meunier and Pinot NoirFrancis Egly is the fourth generation to farm old vines in the grand cru village of Ambonnay, and there is a broad consensus that nobody there does it better. This is his calling card: roughly 70% Pinot Noir and 30% Chardonnay, about 70% Ambonnay, the rest from Bouzy, Verzenay and Verzy, aged four years on the lees, raised in barrel, bottled unfined and unfiltered with a barely there dosage. Egly's whole philosophy is that complexity comes from