Pierre Gerbais Champagne Extra Brut Grains de Celles NV CRV The formula remains unchanged from

The formula remains unchanged from its 19th-century origins in the French Alps

Light brick red with an amber hue with notes of caramel and raisins

sugar and bentonite are added to the base wine in a small steel tank

This is a tiny production and extremely delicious rose from one of our favorite growers in the Aube

bright and full of wild strawberries and alpine minerals

Pierre Gerbais Champagne Extra Brut Grains de Celles NV CRV The formula remains unchanged fromAurlien Gerbais went to wine school in Beaune, not Reims which makes sense, because if you grow up in the Aube you live closer to Burgundy than to the rest of Champagne. He worked with Olivier Lamy in St. Aubin, came home to Celles sur Ource, and still says he considers himself more Burgundian than Champenois. Grains de Celles is the flagship: Pinot Noir with Chardonnay and a full quarter Pinot Blanc, a grape almost nobody in Champagne bothers with