Pauline Collin Bereche Champagne 1er Cru Vieilles Vignes Ludes 2020 champagne-club and warmth on the palate

and warmth on the palate

but to help the brave local farmers who protected these vines for generations against pressures to tear them out in favor of international varieties

and built for warm-weather drinking

sourced from parcels around the Côte that punch well above the appellation

If you've never had a Corsican red made from a grape you can't pronounce

Pauline Collin Bereche Champagne 1er Cru Vieilles Vignes Ludes 2020 champagne-club and warmth on the palatePauline 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,