Wirth Michel Champagne Extra Brut Origines NV Wine Club This Morey-Saint-Denis comes from two

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

less than four miles from the Pacific - foggy

The 2021 is cool-toned and fresh

Few bottles survive nearly a century with the grace of this 1938 Niepoort Garrafeira Port

800 feet in the Mayacamas is not the easy way to do it

Wirth Michel Champagne Extra Brut Origines NV Wine Club This Morey-Saint-Denis comes from twoMeunier 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