Flancourt Champagne Brut Chronique NV core-no-restrictions and saline minerality

and saline minerality

orange-pink hue "eye of the partridge"

"La Croix" represents a rosé from further afield than Provence

infused and naturally sweetened

the Belgian outsider who reset expectations for what the Maconnais could do

Flancourt Champagne Brut Chronique NV core-no-restrictions and saline mineralityChampagne's next generation doesn't always inherit a famous name sometimes it starts one. Quentin Richard came up in the orbit of Francis Boulard et Fille, one of the region's quiet biodynamic standard bearers, and now makes his own wine in the Valle de la Marne under the Flancourt label. Chronique is the calling card: a near even split of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir with a fifth Pinot Meunier, farmed biodynamically. The Marne is Meunier country, and