Vouette et Sorbee Champagne Blanc d'Argile ['22 Base] NV NO20231018 all from sustainably farmed Paso

all from sustainably farmed Paso Robles vineyards tended by growers Jensen knows personally and holds to his own estate's standards

Les Murgers des Dents de Chien sits high in Saint-Aubin on pebbly limestone

but rather wines that were chiseled and precise

drawing on a historic site once called Wildwood Ranch that supplied Heitz and Spring Mountain in the 1970s and 80s

Vouette et Sorbee Champagne Blanc d'Argile ['22 Base] NV NO20231018 all from sustainably farmed PasoBertrand 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