Pauline Collin Bereche Champagne 1er Cru Vieilles Vignes Ludes 2020 CRV5 Pour it neat or over

Pour it neat or over ice after dinner

smoked herbs

Monte Rossa's Sansevè is the house's take — 100% Chardonnay pulled from parcels spread across the heart of the zone

Weingut Emrich-Schönleber sources from sites with dramatic 70-degree slopes

and Priorat—experience visible in the wine's delicate balance of ripe stone fruit

Pauline Collin Bereche Champagne 1er Cru Vieilles Vignes Ludes 2020 CRV5 Pour it neat or overPauline Collin is one of the most exciting new voices in grower Champagne, and this is only her second release. She comes from a long line of growers in Ludes, a premier cru village high on the Montagne de Reims, and she trained at Krug and Ruinart before working alongside her husband Raphael Bereche. Her credo is simple: one wine, one terroir, one vintage. To do it, she reclaimed roughly two hectares of the family's finest old vine parcels to farm,