Vilmart 'Blanches Voies' Champagne Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut 2012

Vilmart 'Blanches Voies' Champagne Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut 2012Chardonnay from 55 year old selection massale vines on limestone 10 months in barrique, 84 months sur latte 100 bottles produced Individually boxed

meaning it doesn't have the intensely nutty quality of some Jura wines

and fermented in neutral french oak

Belle Naturelle is Grüner Veltliner “in its birthday suit” as Alwin calls it

she and I hit it off and have remained good friends

and with zero addition of sulfur

” Millions of years ago

All of this is aged separately in amphoras and old oak for half a year before the four wines are merged right before bottling

it's Italy's first natural wine cooperative and now includes 30 members who “believe natural vinification is a social responsibility

a short drive north past the very end of the Bajo de Guía

France at the foot of the Bauges Massif

He is committed to doing 100% of the vineyard work with his horse Phenomene

April 2022]