Agrapart & Fils Champagne Avize Grand Cru Extra Brut Complantee ['22 Base] NV TAGS and bay leaf

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Luis Pato has spent his career arguing that this is a farming problem

An angular expression of Sauvignon Blanc from Touraine

a village Gevrey-Chambertin from old vines (Vieilles Vignes) that blurs the line with premier cru quality

on the border between Castel Rocchero and Acqui

Agrapart & Fils Champagne Avize Grand Cru Extra Brut Complantee ['22 Base] NV TAGS and bay leafAgrapart 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