Domaine Genot-Boulanger Mercurey 1er Cru En Sazenay 2015 Lanson Rose Champagne and the wine is intensely

and the wine is intensely aromatic without being heavy: rose petal

The chalky soils here do something specific to Chardonnay: they give it lift and tension rather than weight

because it's built to reward patience and won't hit full stride for years

An impossibly fresh

These macerations are then blended together with the fresh cold brew and sweetened with homemade panela

Domaine Genot-Boulanger Mercurey 1er Cru En Sazenay 2015 Lanson Rose Champagne and the wine is intenselyGnot Boulanger is the kind of producer Burgundy insiders trade tips about and the rest of the wine world hasn't caught up to yet. Aude and Guillaume Lavolle farm organically with biodynamic touches, work each site with a horse drawn plough, and keep new oak at 15% or less. Mercurey is where the story started, when Aude's ancestor Charles Henri Gnot broke a 20 generation pharmacist family chain to buy vines here in 1974, and the En Sazenay 1er Cru is