Wirth Michel Champagne Extra Brut Origines NV NO20230816 with aromatics leaning towards citrus

with aromatics leaning towards citrus

and chalky minerality

This sweet wine shows fresh

Sevilles are prized for their peels

Wirth Michel Champagne Extra Brut Origines NV NO20230816 with aromatics leaning towards citrusMeunier 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