Wirth Michel Champagne Extra Brut Origines NV NO20231108 At just 13

At just 13

Made only in the finest vintages

A complex blend of caramel

From a blend of vineyards between the Russian River Valley and the Sonoma Coast

This is roughly 50/50 Pinot Noir and Chardonnay

Wirth Michel Champagne Extra Brut Origines NV NO20231108 At just 13Meunier 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