Egly-Ouriet Champagne Grand Cru Extra Brut NV [NET] SCCOS It's drinking exactly where you

It's drinking exactly where you want it now

which is a fair summary of Filipa Pato's whole approach

after a hiatus due to mixing in younger barrels to keep up with demand

plus the same grapes and a similar terroir

Egly-Ouriet Champagne Grand Cru Extra Brut NV [NET] SCCOS It's drinking exactly where youFrancis Egly is the fourth generation to farm old vines in the grand cru village of Ambonnay, and there is a broad consensus that nobody there does it better. This is his calling card: roughly 70% Pinot Noir and 30% Chardonnay, about 70% Ambonnay, the rest from Bouzy, Verzenay and Verzy, aged four years on the lees, raised in barrel, bottled unfined and unfiltered with a barely there dosage. Egly's whole philosophy is that complexity comes from