The 'Champagne Rescue' 4-pack
If you’re like us, you can never seem to have enough Champagne around. It has a strange way of…well…disappearing.
This 4-pack will provide temporary relief of your desperate need for handmade Champagne by some of the region’s hottest rising star makers. These wines go quickly, so snag them while you can. It’s a great chance to start stocking for the holiday months, too.
In this pack, you’ll get four bottles, two of the first one—Calsac’s L’Échappée Belle—and one each of the other two:
Champagne, Etienne Calsac, ‘L’Échappée Belle’, Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs, NV
I visited young Etienne a few years ago at his little facility—just a tiny corrugated building where he worked alone, quietly making perfect, energetic, very personal Champagnes. Since then, he has emerged as one of the most exciting boutique names in the Cote des Blancs subregion. This 100% Chardonnay Blanc de Blancs is by far the best L’Échappée Belle from him I’ve tried, partly due to his growth as a winemaker and partly because 80% of the wine is from the ravishing 2021 vintage (the remaining 20% is back-vintage reserve wine). At Extra Brut, it is dry and crisp but not the least bit austere. Rather, it is luminous and lively.
Champagne, Robert Moncuit, ‘Les Grands Blancs’ Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs, Grand Cru, NV
The Moncuit family are like winemaking royalty in the famed Grand Cru village of Le Mesnil-sur-Oger. This fantastic Blanc de Blancs feels open, toasty, and lovably old-style with its scents of apple and brioche, but among its broad texture it has deep minerality. It, too is a dry style but it still feels generous and giving. Get some Grand Cru in your life, stat.
Champagne, Christophe Mignon, ‘ADN de Meunier’, Brut Nature, NV
Take the rare opportunity to try a Champagne made entirely from the Pinot Meunier grape. Christophe Mignon is a specialist in the Vallée de la Marne with this grape, constantly championing its charming, fruity virtues. He’s another hand-maker of small-production wines, he farms biodynamically and he ages this wine for 3 years on its lees, well beyond the requirement for a non-vintage bottling. It’s bright and focused, but it has gorgeous suppleness in its fruit, too.
—SG
Orders for ‘Champagne Rescue’ 4-pack will be available for pickup starting next Friday, November 3rd.
If you’re like us, you can never seem to have enough Champagne around. It has a strange way of…well…disappearing.
This 4-pack will provide temporary relief of your desperate need for handmade Champagne by some of the region’s hottest rising star makers. These wines go quickly, so snag them while you can. It’s a great chance to start stocking for the holiday months, too.
In this pack, you’ll get four bottles, two of the first one—Calsac’s L’Échappée Belle—and one each of the other two:
Champagne, Etienne Calsac, ‘L’Échappée Belle’, Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs, NV
I visited young Etienne a few years ago at his little facility—just a tiny corrugated building where he worked alone, quietly making perfect, energetic, very personal Champagnes. Since then, he has emerged as one of the most exciting boutique names in the Cote des Blancs subregion. This 100% Chardonnay Blanc de Blancs is by far the best L’Échappée Belle from him I’ve tried, partly due to his growth as a winemaker and partly because 80% of the wine is from the ravishing 2021 vintage (the remaining 20% is back-vintage reserve wine). At Extra Brut, it is dry and crisp but not the least bit austere. Rather, it is luminous and lively.
Champagne, Robert Moncuit, ‘Les Grands Blancs’ Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs, Grand Cru, NV
The Moncuit family are like winemaking royalty in the famed Grand Cru village of Le Mesnil-sur-Oger. This fantastic Blanc de Blancs feels open, toasty, and lovably old-style with its scents of apple and brioche, but among its broad texture it has deep minerality. It, too is a dry style but it still feels generous and giving. Get some Grand Cru in your life, stat.
Champagne, Christophe Mignon, ‘ADN de Meunier’, Brut Nature, NV
Take the rare opportunity to try a Champagne made entirely from the Pinot Meunier grape. Christophe Mignon is a specialist in the Vallée de la Marne with this grape, constantly championing its charming, fruity virtues. He’s another hand-maker of small-production wines, he farms biodynamically and he ages this wine for 3 years on its lees, well beyond the requirement for a non-vintage bottling. It’s bright and focused, but it has gorgeous suppleness in its fruit, too.
—SG
Orders for ‘Champagne Rescue’ 4-pack will be available for pickup starting next Friday, November 3rd.
If you’re like us, you can never seem to have enough Champagne around. It has a strange way of…well…disappearing.
This 4-pack will provide temporary relief of your desperate need for handmade Champagne by some of the region’s hottest rising star makers. These wines go quickly, so snag them while you can. It’s a great chance to start stocking for the holiday months, too.
In this pack, you’ll get four bottles, two of the first one—Calsac’s L’Échappée Belle—and one each of the other two:
Champagne, Etienne Calsac, ‘L’Échappée Belle’, Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs, NV
I visited young Etienne a few years ago at his little facility—just a tiny corrugated building where he worked alone, quietly making perfect, energetic, very personal Champagnes. Since then, he has emerged as one of the most exciting boutique names in the Cote des Blancs subregion. This 100% Chardonnay Blanc de Blancs is by far the best L’Échappée Belle from him I’ve tried, partly due to his growth as a winemaker and partly because 80% of the wine is from the ravishing 2021 vintage (the remaining 20% is back-vintage reserve wine). At Extra Brut, it is dry and crisp but not the least bit austere. Rather, it is luminous and lively.
Champagne, Robert Moncuit, ‘Les Grands Blancs’ Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs, Grand Cru, NV
The Moncuit family are like winemaking royalty in the famed Grand Cru village of Le Mesnil-sur-Oger. This fantastic Blanc de Blancs feels open, toasty, and lovably old-style with its scents of apple and brioche, but among its broad texture it has deep minerality. It, too is a dry style but it still feels generous and giving. Get some Grand Cru in your life, stat.
Champagne, Christophe Mignon, ‘ADN de Meunier’, Brut Nature, NV
Take the rare opportunity to try a Champagne made entirely from the Pinot Meunier grape. Christophe Mignon is a specialist in the Vallée de la Marne with this grape, constantly championing its charming, fruity virtues. He’s another hand-maker of small-production wines, he farms biodynamically and he ages this wine for 3 years on its lees, well beyond the requirement for a non-vintage bottling. It’s bright and focused, but it has gorgeous suppleness in its fruit, too.
—SG