Pierre Gerbais Champagne Extra Brut Champ Viole NV MH Aromatics of light spices

Aromatics of light spices

This is the Cote Chalonnaise doing what it does best: Burgundy from the edges

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A wine that asks for a few years in the cellar and rewards patience

and it is made about as simply as wine gets: organically farmed fruit

Pierre Gerbais Champagne Extra Brut Champ Viole NV MH Aromatics of light spicesChamp Viole is one of Pierre Gerbais's most personal cuves, a single parcel Extra Brut that captures the chalk, clay, and Kimmeridgian limestone of Celles sur Ource. Gerbais farms biodynamically and bottles with conviction no two cuves feel quite the same, and Champ Viole has a particularly stony, savory profile that rewards a real glass and a little time. A grower Champagne built more like a still white wine than a party bubbly.