Flancourt Champagne Brut Chronique NV champagne-club From the Importer: Wild myrtle

From the Importer: Wild myrtle bushes grow all over the island of Sardinia

This certified organic Cabernet Franc emerges from clay-limestone soils over chalk tuffeau at the edge of Puy-Notre-Dame

Fuisse and Chanes

where 35-to-40-year-old vines root into gravel

with orchard and exotic fruit and that classic Alto Adige snap of acidity

Flancourt Champagne Brut Chronique NV champagne-club From the Importer: Wild myrtleChampagne's next generation doesn't always inherit a famous name sometimes it starts one. Quentin Richard came up in the orbit of Francis Boulard et Fille, one of the region's quiet biodynamic standard bearers, and now makes his own wine in the Valle de la Marne under the Flancourt label. Chronique is the calling card: a near even split of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir with a fifth Pinot Meunier, farmed biodynamically. The Marne is Meunier country, and