as though biting straight into a perfectly ripe blood orange
Sagrantino is one of Italy's most tannic grapes
with the salinity and structure to evolve in bottle for years
is just as deft with the crus as she is with everyday Beaujolais
Thirty days of skin contact and 28 months in large wooden vessels preserve the wine's complexity and mineral precision
Agrapart & Fils Champagne Extra Brut Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Mineral 2019 [NET] champagne-template as though biting straight intoPascal Agrapart makes several single vintage Champagnes off the same Avize hillside, each vinified identically so the soil does the talking and Mineral is the chalk speaking at full volume. It's drawn from two lower slope, pure chalk parcels, in Avize and neighboring Cramant, of 40 plus year old Chardonnay, the coolest and most crystalline sites in his range. Native yeast fermented in seasoned oak and dosed barely at all, it's the taut, laser cut,