Wirth Michel Champagne Extra Brut Origines NV NO20231108 The alcohol added to this

The alcohol added to this aruten –daiginjo is Nekka Shochu

it delivers juicy tropical aromatics without aggressive bitterness—just 10 IBUs

A complex blend of caramel

At just 13

grandson of a vigneron

Wirth Michel Champagne Extra Brut Origines NV NO20231108 The alcohol added to thisMeunier 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