Flancourt Champagne Brut Chronique NV Lettie Teague WSJ On Wine Rhys's Horseshoe vineyard expresses Syrah

Rhys's Horseshoe vineyard expresses Syrah with wild

featuring orange peel

It’s deep and structured without feeling heavy

A grappa aged four years in two types of wood: first two years in classical oak barrels

it ages roughly fifteen months in large 18hL oak casks

Flancourt Champagne Brut Chronique NV Lettie Teague WSJ On Wine Rhys's Horseshoe vineyard expresses SyrahChampagne's next generation doesn't always inherit a famous name sometimes it starts one. Quentin Richard came up in the orbit of Francis Boulard et Fille, one of the region's quiet biodynamic standard bearers, and now makes his own wine in the Valle de la Marne under the Flancourt label. Chronique is the calling card: a near even split of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir with a fifth Pinot Meunier, farmed biodynamically. The Marne is Meunier country, and