Andre Heucq Champagne Cuvee Oeuf 2023 JULY42024 sweet herbs and exotic spices

sweet herbs and exotic spices

Great in a gin and tonic

Loire Valley ingenuity in a glass

Disgorged March 24

This rye is made from an ultra-rare

Andre Heucq Champagne Cuvee Oeuf 2023 JULY42024 sweet herbs and exotic spicesMeunier usually plays a supporting role in Champagne; here it is the whole show. Andre Heucq, a fourth generation organic grower in the Vallee de la Marne village of Cuisles, makes this rare Blanc de Meunier entirely in concrete eggs (hence Oeuf), which lend it a subtle texture and roundness. Certified organic, taken fully through malolactic, aged on its lees and bottled Brut Nature with no dosage, it is a pure, transparent look at a grape that rarely