Vouette et Sorbee Champagne Brut Nature Fidele ['22 Base] NV 061126OFFER when the norm for non-vintage

when the norm for non-vintage Champagne is under five

9% alcohol

Mas de Daumas Gassac put the Languedoc on the fine wine map in the 1970s with wines so iconoclastic that people started comparing the reds to Bordeaux's greatest names

all perfume and silk where La Landonne is iron and grip

punched down twice daily for two weeks

Vouette et Sorbee Champagne Brut Nature Fidele ['22 Base] NV 061126OFFER when the norm for non-vintageFidele means faithful, and Bertrand Gautherot chose the name to describe the job: report the ground honestly, add nothing. This is his Pinot Noir, grown biodynamically in Buxieres sur Arce at the southern tip of Champagne, on the Kimmeridgian limestone that also underlies Chablis. It ferments with native yeasts in barrel and goes into bottle brut nature, meaning no sugar was added at the end to soften the edges. That takes nerve; it also means the