Agrapart & Fils Champagne Avize Grand Cru Extra Brut Complantee ['22 Base] NV JULY42024 Calvados with an unusually high

Calvados with an unusually high pear content

and at the top of their respective games

unfiltered Cabernet Franc in the Loire Valley's Touraine

Carignan and Mourvèdre handled with whole-cluster fermentation and no fining or filtering

Drink it neat first to see where it sits

Agrapart & Fils Champagne Avize Grand Cru Extra Brut Complantee ['22 Base] NV JULY42024 Calvados with an unusually highAgrapart has been estate bottling Champagne in Avize since 1894 a grower before anyone thought to call it that. Complantee is their gorgeous oddball: a single Avize Grand Cru plot co planted with a mix of Champagne's grape varieties Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier, Pinot Blanc, Arbane, and Petit Meslier all interplanted, picked, and fermented together the old fashioned way. Pascal co planted the parcel back in 2003, betting that as the vines age