Ruelle Pertois Brut Millesime Champagne Grand Cru 2017In the early part of the 20th century, the families of Michel Ruelle and Martine Pertois made Champagne in the village of Moussy, a village on the border of the Valle de la Marne and the Cte des Blancs. When Michel and Martine married in the early 1970s, they invariably began their own Champagne house in the village. And when they retired from their mtiers as Champagne makers, their son Benoit and daughter Virginie assumed the reins of the family

Every one of you whom I have poured this wine for

the Loir River isn’t the Loire River

These wines are at their best when they’re grown and vinified plainly and simply

gentle spice

lemon oil and white peach

before the legend

Michel Mailliard was more than a grower

an extended cellar life that leads to a stony

I think about my very first sip of it

just as in red Cotes du Rhone

And Ettore’s Amarone is exceptional:

Both succeed