Vouette et Sorbee Champagne Blanc d'Argile ['22 Base] NV 040926OFFER The Brunier family's mastery shines

The Brunier family's mastery shines through in every sip

Fermented in seasoned oak with native yeasts and finished bone-dry

and pronounced minerality

and eight centuries later the Commanderie de Peyrassol is still going — now with a sculpture park scattered among the vineyards in the foothills of the Massif des Maures

a biodynamic family estate worked by the Charavins on the sunrise-facing slopes of Rasteau in the southern Rhone

Vouette et Sorbee Champagne Blanc d'Argile ['22 Base] NV 040926OFFER The Brunier family's mastery shinesBertrand Gautherot farms a handful of hectares in Buxieres sur Arce, at the far southern end of Champagne, where the limestone under the vines is the same Kimmeridgian marl that runs beneath Chablis. He works biodynamically and keeps cows and chickens on the property, because he would rather the vines eat what the farm produces than what a bag delivers. Blanc d'Argile is his Chardonnay, from a parcel where clay sits over that limestone, fermented with