Emmanuel Brochet Le Mont Benoit Premier Cru Extra Brut

Emmanuel Brochet Le Mont Benoit Premier Cru Extra Brut NV (Base 2020)

97/100 RP last vintage, this one not yet reported;
Emmanuel Brochet derives from a farming family in a part of Champagne that converted from viticulture to agriculture (more lucrative, given their proximity to Reims) in the aftermath of phylloxera. One of the remaining outposts of the vine is the Mont Benoît, where his grandparents had some 2.5 hectares, contracted out. So, in 1997, Brochet took over and started a project of his own—a choice he made freely and enthusiastically, he emphasizes, rather than out of obligation. The Mont Benoît is a substantial chalk outcropping in the plain west of Reims, and its exposed situation means that weather is more extreme: it's colder when it's cold, hotter when it's hot and windier when it's windy. Farming organically, Brochet sells his tailles and part of the cuvée. His wines have been vinified in wood with his own yeast selections since 2016 and see 11 months in barrel before circulation. Concentrated, vinous and incisive, these are chiseled, penetrating Champagnes of impressive cut and intensity, and I found much to admire. In short, anyone who ventures down the Impasse Brochet, the felicitously named street at the end of which this small winery is located, will find that it is anything but a dead end. - William Kelley, Robert Parker -Wine Advocate

Can be picked up in Aarhus or shipped.
Stored according to all the rules of the art.