Domaine Genot-Boulanger Mercurey 1er Cru En Sazenay 2015 Lanson Rose Champagne and the wine is intensely

and the wine is intensely aromatic without being heavy: rose petal

An impossibly fresh

The chalky soils here do something specific to Chardonnay: they give it lift and tension rather than weight

Native fermentation with 12 days on skins and 17 months in barrel creates textural richness and complexity rarely found in this varietal

This is the spirit that started it all for us

Domaine Genot-Boulanger Mercurey 1er Cru En Sazenay 2015 Lanson Rose Champagne and the wine is intenselyGnot Boulanger is the kind of producer Burgundy insiders trade tips about and the rest of the wine world hasn't caught up to yet. Aude and Guillaume Lavolle farm organically with biodynamic touches, work each site with a horse drawn plough, and keep new oak at 15% or less. Mercurey is where the story started, when Aude's ancestor Charles Henri Gnot broke a 20 generation pharmacist family chain to buy vines here in 1974, and the En Sazenay 1er Cru is