Egly-Ouriet Champagne Grand Cru Extra Brut NV [NET] CS20231026 Pinot Meunier and Pinot Noir

Pinot Meunier and Pinot Noir vinified as red wine

and Sansho peppercorn berries

2013 and 2011

chalky minerals

Egly-Ouriet Champagne Grand Cru Extra Brut NV [NET] CS20231026 Pinot Meunier and Pinot NoirFrancis Egly is the fourth generation to farm old vines in the grand cru village of Ambonnay, and there is a broad consensus that nobody there does it better. This is his calling card: roughly 70% Pinot Noir and 30% Chardonnay, about 70% Ambonnay, the rest from Bouzy, Verzenay and Verzy, aged four years on the lees, raised in barrel, bottled unfined and unfiltered with a barely there dosage. Egly's whole philosophy is that complexity comes from