Champagne Egly-Ouriet Grand Cru Blanc de Noirs Les Crayères Vieilles Vignes NV (Base 16, Disg Jul 23) sangiovse seafood risotto

seafood risotto

Where possible the wine was allowed extended time on skins following ferment before being pressed to 225 Litre French oak barrels for maturation

and velvety with soft

Nathalie Theulot’s Côte Chalonnaise white is usually a domaine bottling drawn from vines in Mercurey

with elegant hints of oak with round

Champagne Egly-Ouriet Grand Cru Blanc de Noirs Les Crayères Vieilles Vignes NV (Base 16, Disg Jul 23) sangiovse seafood risottoIn some ways, this is the emblematic wine of the domaine. It was Michel Bettane, the influential French critic, who encouraged Francis Egly to bottle this single vineyard wine separately, with the first release being from the 1989 vintage. This latest offering was bottled after the 2016 base had spent close to one year in cask before being blended with 50% reserve wines from the 2015 vintage. All the vinification and aging for both vintages was in