Wirth Michel Champagne Extra Brut Origines NV extra-brut-selection and a portion of every

and a portion of every sale supports nonprofits protecting California wetlands and Indigenous cultures

Proof that Garnacha can whisper instead of shout

where old own-rooted vines ripen slowly and hold onto their acid

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Base wine made from locally grown Garganega and Trebbiano di Lugana

Wirth Michel Champagne Extra Brut Origines NV extra-brut-selection and a portion of everyMeunier usually gets treated as Champagne's third wheel the workhorse blended in for flesh, rarely credited. The Wirth family, five generations deep in the Coteaux Sud d'pernay villages of Vinay, Moussy and Brugny, build their house wine around it instead: 70% Meunier to 30% Chardonnay, farmed organically, fermented partly in 600 liter barrel with reserve wine held in concrete. Twenty six months on the lees give it depth, and a dosage of just 2 grams