Benoit Lahaye Champagne Extra Brut Blanc de Noirs NV JULY4 with a golden cast

with a golden cast

Rich and stunningly complex with a full range of fruit

cinchona bark

This is brilliant

balanced by an incredibly unique smoothness

Benoit Lahaye Champagne Extra Brut Blanc de Noirs NV JULY4 with a golden castBenoit Lahaye is one of a tiny handful of Champagne growers who still plows his vineyards with a horse, part of a biodynamic conviction that has run deep since the 1990s in his Grand Cru village of Bouzy. This Blanc de Noirs is 100% Pinot Noir, a white Champagne made entirely from black grapes, bottled unfiltered and dosed barely at all. Farming this carefully lets him pick genuinely ripe fruit, so the wine stays pure and low dosage without ever