Vouette et Sorbee Champagne Blanc d'Argile ['22 Base] NV CS20230828 genuinely scarce

genuinely scarce

and aging in large Slavonian oak casks

Once mastered

raised in French oak with a careful hand

It's equally brilliant as a complex digestif

Vouette et Sorbee Champagne Blanc d'Argile ['22 Base] NV CS20230828 genuinely scarceBertrand Gautherot farms a handful of hectares in Buxieres sur Arce, at the far southern end of Champagne, where the limestone under the vines is the same Kimmeridgian marl that runs beneath Chablis. He works biodynamically and keeps cows and chickens on the property, because he would rather the vines eat what the farm produces than what a bag delivers. Blanc d'Argile is his Chardonnay, from a parcel where clay sits over that limestone, fermented with