Vouette et Sorbee Champagne Brut Nature Fidele ['22 Base] NV Wine Bar | Featured Red 2000 was a benchmark vintage

2000 was a benchmark vintage and du Tertre delivered handsomely

Thai is flamboyantly beautiful and deep

Marc Ollivier set the benchmark for serious Muscadet over three decades here (he retired after the 2019 vintage)

with fortnightly (that’s every two weeks) battonage for 8 months after which is was racked and bottled

and the 2004 is an equal blend of Cabernet Sauvignon

Vouette et Sorbee Champagne Brut Nature Fidele ['22 Base] NV Wine Bar | Featured Red 2000 was a benchmark vintageFidele means faithful, and Bertrand Gautherot chose the name to describe the job: report the ground honestly, add nothing. This is his Pinot Noir, grown biodynamically in Buxieres sur Arce at the southern tip of Champagne, on the Kimmeridgian limestone that also underlies Chablis. It ferments with native yeasts in barrel and goes into bottle brut nature, meaning no sugar was added at the end to soften the edges. That takes nerve; it also means the