Varnier-Fanniere, Cuvee Jean Fanniere Origine, Avize Grand Cru NV barrel aged

Varnier-Fanniere, Cuvee Jean Fanniere Origine, Avize Grand Cru NV barrel agedThis cuvee is dedicated to Jean Fanniere who decided in the 50s to stop selling his grapes and produce his own Champagne instead. The vines in the Grand Cru area that were used at the time are still the ones used for this wine. Aged for five years in bottle, it has real intensity and a broad mouth filling structure. Aromas of green apple, hints of flint and smoky minerality along with sweet pastry and bread dough. Enjoy it on its own, with oysters or

Cool and silky with elegant yellow orchard fruits such as peach intermingled with honeysuckle

Try it with goats' cheese

The palate has a mixture of peach and tangelo fruit finishing with an orange skin tang of minerality

It is medium-bodied with a long

Alexandre Chartogne is a disciple of the legendary Anselme Selosse and this influence shows in the concentrated and powerful styles of Champagne he produces

with flat peach and flinty mineral notes on the nose and the palate and with a very elegant and refined

fine red cherry and pale wild strawberries define this elegant

Medium-bodied and silky with plenty of juicy peach and pear fruit alongside stony minerality

due to a cooler microclimate

lightly toasted almonds

with firm tannins and has a fresh final acidity

opening up to an almond bitterness