Pierre Gimonnet Champagne Blanc de Blancs 1er Cru Brut Fleuron 2019 QUANTITY CHECK and pomegranate notes

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Medium to full-bodied with a firm

in other years those same dried grapes become Rosso del Bepi instead

Pierre Gimonnet Champagne Blanc de Blancs 1er Cru Brut Fleuron 2019 QUANTITY CHECK and pomegranate notesGimonnet is a Chardonnay house through and through based in Cuis, sitting on some of the oldest Chardonnay vines in the Cte des Blancs, and utterly uninterested in making anything else. Fleuron is where they turn up the intensity: mostly Grand Cru fruit from Cramant and Chouilly, rounded out with Cuis, drawn from eight separate lieux dits and bottled only in vintages worth the trouble. 2019 gives it ripeness without losing the chalk. This is Blanc de