Vouette et Sorbee Champagne Blanc d'Argile ['22 Base] NV Consignment This whiskey is light enough

This whiskey is light enough to examine on the palette without the burn associated with higher-proof whiskeys

with the backbone coming from an old Beltza vineyard planted in 1840 and kept alive by the family for generations

and Sangiovese

with yields held way down

Pierre Gimonnet is one of the masters of Chardonnay in Champagne

Vouette et Sorbee Champagne Blanc d'Argile ['22 Base] NV Consignment This whiskey is light enoughBertrand 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