Gamet Champagne Blanc de Noirs Brut Nature Carres du Midi 2019 extra-brut-selection but the wine is built

but the wine is built on tension rather than richness

Seventy-year-old Mencía vines planted on schist at 450 meters yield wines of remarkable purity and vibrancy

Equal parts grenache

foot-trodden in lagares

Gamet Champagne Blanc de Noirs Brut Nature Carres du Midi 2019 extra-brut-selection but the wine is builtNorth facing vineyards used to be a liability in Champagne. In a warming region they have quietly become an asset, and Carres du Midi is the argument: one north facing parcel in the village of Mardeuil, in the Marne Valley, planted to Pinot Noir back in 1969 and farmed by Marianne Gamet, the fourth generation here. Slower ripening means more tension, and Gamet doesn't sand any of it down the wine is fermented and aged in demi muids, spends 36 months