Bedrock's parcel is roughly 60% Zinfandel and 40% Carignane
From an estate perched between the Mediterranean and the Gros-Cerveau mountain
The tannins are soft and velvety
now nearly two decades old and drinking in its savory
with real terroir underneath
Laherte Freres, Champagne Les Grandes Crayeres Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut, 2021 msk champagne 2021 dc Bedrock's parcel is roughly 60%One lieu dit, one grape, one year. This is Laherte's home field advantage. Les Grandes Crayeres sits in Chavot, the family village south of Epernay, and was planted entirely to Chardonnay back in 1983. The name is a tell: deep chalk under a thin skin of clay and sand, which is where the tension comes from and why the wine still has flesh on it. Aurelien Laherte has bottled it as a vintage cuvee every year since 2014, always Extra Brut, always low on