Wirth Michel Champagne Extra Brut Origines NV NO20230726 citrus peel and saline minerality

citrus peel and saline minerality

focused palate of lime zest

Aichi prefecture

while the palate stays precise and juicy—delicate notes of peach and herbs frame subtle minerality

This just goes to show that fresh

Wirth Michel Champagne Extra Brut Origines NV NO20230726 citrus peel and saline mineralityMeunier usually gets treated as Champagne's third wheel the workhorse blended in for flesh, rarely credited. The Wirth family, five generations deep in the Coteaux Sud d'pernay villages of Vinay, Moussy and Brugny, build their house wine around it instead: 70% Meunier to 30% Chardonnay, farmed organically, fermented partly in 600 liter barrel with reserve wine held in concrete. Twenty six months on the lees give it depth, and a dosage of just 2 grams