Michel Mailliard Brut Cuvee GregoryVertus is more than a dot on the Cte des Blancs. Its a village where chalk runs close to the surface and Chardonnay is shaped by tension from the start. Since 1894, the Mailliard family has farmed here, four generations rooted in these pale soils, their history set into Vertus as firmly as the vines themselves. Cuve Grgory takes its name from the fourth generation now at the helm, Gregory Mailliard, working alongside his sister Alexia after years

Looking left

La Croix Boissée carries Chinon’s limestone gravity with a quieter

like fizzy mineral water

once on the palate the wine is soft-contoured yet energetic

how I have to relearn that Corsica is FRENCH

And they got nothing

and also on the attack

If the first block of Lytton’s Zinfandel looks like a healthy

And this is the first year where Cheval Blanc is just a simple

delivering ripe Marasca cherry

playful fizz and aromas of white peach skin

Fresh and quietly expressive