Wirth Michel Champagne Extra Brut Origines NV 042326OFFER With each vintage

With each vintage

named in honor of Madame Clicquot herself — the widow who

From the producer: Grass Widow Bourbon contains a unique high rye mash bill of 36% Rye

From a seven-hectare southwest-facing parcel comes Sauvignon Blanc reimagined—partial barrel fermentation transforms this into a wine led by texture rather than aromatics

Heady herbals

Wirth Michel Champagne Extra Brut Origines NV 042326OFFER With each vintageMeunier 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