Wirth Michel Champagne Extra Brut Origines NV extra-brut-selection a throwback to the styles

a throwback to the styles most enjoyed in New York at the heyday of US Madeira appreciation

or on ice with orange

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Made from Barbera grape marc at Sibona Antica Distilleria in Piedmont

Wirth Michel Champagne Extra Brut Origines NV extra-brut-selection a throwback to the stylesMeunier 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