Agrapart & Fils Champagne Avize Grand Cru Extra Brut Complantee ['22 Base] NV TAGS and bay leaf

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a village Gevrey-Chambertin from old vines (Vieilles Vignes) that blurs the line with premier cru quality

Luis Pato has spent his career arguing that this is a farming problem

windy hillside above Langenlois with rocky amphibolite soils that push vine roots deep and leave a salty streak in the glass

5 in La Cadiere-d'Azur on red Triassic clay and gypsum

Agrapart & Fils Champagne Avize Grand Cru Extra Brut Complantee ['22 Base] NV TAGS and bay leafAgrapart has been estate bottling Champagne in Avize since 1894 a grower before anyone thought to call it that. Complantee is their gorgeous oddball: a single Avize Grand Cru plot co planted with a mix of Champagne's grape varieties Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier, Pinot Blanc, Arbane, and Petit Meslier all interplanted, picked, and fermented together the old fashioned way. Pascal co planted the parcel back in 2003, betting that as the vines age