Vouette et Sorbee Champagne Blanc d'Argile ['22 Base] NV (1.5L) NO20231101 with Champagne's Rodolphe Peters -

with Champagne's Rodolphe Peters - to put down roots in California at all

topped up throughout so it stays taut and precise instead of turning oxidative

Camarda's preferred approach

an obscure pocket of the upper Loire where the Serol family has been farming granite slopes for generations

The name says it all: bourbon + rye = Bourye

Vouette et Sorbee Champagne Blanc d'Argile ['22 Base] NV (1.5L) NO20231101 with Champagne's Rodolphe Peters -This is the format Gautherot's Chardonnay was built for: a magnum ages more slowly, and this is a Champagne with the structure to reward the wait. He farms biodynamically in Buxieres sur Arce, in the far south of Champagne, on Kimmeridgian limestone shared with Chablis, with cows and chickens on the property to keep the farm feeding itself. Blanc d'Argile comes from a parcel where clay lies over that limestone, fermented with native yeasts in barrel