Agrapart & Fils Champagne Extra Brut Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Mineral 2019 [NET] 052626OFFER planted predominantly to Pinot Meunier

planted predominantly to Pinot Meunier (over 90%) with a small percentage of Pinot Noir

which tells you how close to the earth this operation runs

and those selected for this vintage were fermented slowly and aged in cask to develop extraordinary sweetness and complexity

The Mosel's slate soils show up loud and clear: this is a crisp

Agrapart & Fils Champagne Extra Brut Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Mineral 2019 [NET] 052626OFFER planted predominantly to Pinot MeunierPascal Agrapart makes several single vintage Champagnes off the same Avize hillside, each vinified identically so the soil does the talking and Mineral is the chalk speaking at full volume. It's drawn from two lower slope, pure chalk parcels, in Avize and neighboring Cramant, of 40 plus year old Chardonnay, the coolest and most crystalline sites in his range. Native yeast fermented in seasoned oak and dosed barely at all, it's the taut, laser cut,