Wirth Michel Champagne Extra Brut Origines NV Wine Club Roussanne and Viognier

Roussanne and Viognier

This Morey-Saint-Denis comes from two small parcels in the heart of the village

less than four miles from the Pacific - foggy

Bottled at 90 proof

Wirth Michel Champagne Extra Brut Origines NV Wine Club Roussanne and ViognierMeunier usually gets treated as Champagne's third wheel the workhorse blended in for flesh, rarely credited. The Wirth family, five generations deep in the Coteaux Sud d'pernay villages of Vinay, Moussy and Brugny, build their house wine around it instead: 70% Meunier to 30% Chardonnay, farmed organically, fermented partly in 600 liter barrel with reserve wine held in concrete. Twenty six months on the lees give it depth, and a dosage of just 2 grams