Flancourt Champagne Brut Chronique NV core-no-restrictions same organic farming

same organic farming

and the wine is correspondingly dense — varietal Zin dialed up

and saline minerality

The final product is sophisticated and delicately bitter with bright citrus and pleasant acidity

in the hills between Lyon and the northern Rhone

Flancourt Champagne Brut Chronique NV core-no-restrictions same organic farmingChampagne'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