Dhondt-Grellet, Champagne Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru 'Cramant', NV [2022] SPcount0226 and Petit Verdot playing supporting

and Petit Verdot playing supporting roles

Made with infused Chinese rhubarb root and a mix of alpine herbs

and lightly banana-inflected flavors remind us of agricole-style rhums

and Lynch-Bages)

dried apricot

Dhondt-Grellet, Champagne Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru 'Cramant', NV [2022] SPcount0226 and Petit Verdot playing supportingAdrien Dhondt Grellet is one of the standard bearers of the grower Champagne movement, farming his family's plots organically and biodynamically, plowing by horse, and making wine like a Burgundian: barrel fermented with native yeasts, full malolactic, no fining or filtration. This bottling is 100% Chardonnay from the Grand Cru village of Cramant, drawn largely from the lieu dit La Garenne, so it carries Cramant's hallmark chalky finesse and salinity