Famille Mousse, Champagne Les Fortes Terres Blanc de Noirs Extra Brut, 2021 overlooked us regions The 2021 is a fresh

The 2021 is a fresh

As the wine breathes

but he farms his red grapes with exactly the same ferocity: hand-worked ponca hillsides in the Colli Orientali and yields cut to a level most growers would consider reckless

Farming is organic

layered and nervy style

Famille Mousse, Champagne Les Fortes Terres Blanc de Noirs Extra Brut, 2021 overlooked us regions The 2021 is a fresh2021 was the year frost, hail and mildew tore through the Marne and cost the Mousses the overwhelming majority of their crop, so a single parcel bottling from that vintage is a small and hard won thing. Les Fortes Terres sits on the hilltop above Cuisles, where a shallow layer of green clay and limestone marl covers chalk, and the forty year old Meunier there gives the most structured wine in the house. It is fermented and aged in stainless steel, put