Agrapart & Fils Champagne Avize Grand Cru Extra Brut Complantee ['22 Base] NV JULY42024 Carignan and Mourvèdre handled with

Carignan and Mourvèdre handled with whole-cluster fermentation and no fining or filtering

near Ras Baalbek

and at the top of their respective games

Calvados with an unusually high pear content

It is aromatic the way Muscat always is

Agrapart & Fils Champagne Avize Grand Cru Extra Brut Complantee ['22 Base] NV JULY42024 Carignan and Mourvèdre handled withAgrapart has been estate bottling Champagne in Avize since 1894 a grower before anyone thought to call it that. Complantee is their gorgeous oddball: a single Avize Grand Cru plot co planted with a mix of Champagne's grape varieties Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier, Pinot Blanc, Arbane, and Petit Meslier all interplanted, picked, and fermented together the old fashioned way. Pascal co planted the parcel back in 2003, betting that as the vines age