Pascal Agrapart, Champagne Terroirs Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut Grand Cru [20/21/22], NV CHAMPCOUNT0525 and Gallinotto/Giachini (La Morra)

and Gallinotto/Giachini (La Morra)

The 2022 vintage was generous and ripe in the Loire

This Mendocino Pinot Noir comes from a remote mountainside vineyard above Comptche

it's the region's flagship white grape: sun-soaked but never flabby

Pascal Agrapart, Champagne Terroirs Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut Grand Cru [20/21/22], NV CHAMPCOUNT0525 and Gallinotto/Giachini (La Morra)Step up from the 7 Crus and the sourcing narrows to four villages, all of them Grand Cru: Avize, Oger, Cramant and Oiry, all Chardonnay, all off the chalk of the Cote des Blancs. Pascal Agrapart farms these parcels organically and ploughs some of them by horse; the estate's vines average around forty years old, with a number of parcels considerably older. This bottling blends three base years, 2020, 2021 and 2022, ferments on indigenous yeast, goes