Barrat-Masson Champagne Brut Nature Millesime 2012 (1.5L) SPCALIFORNIA "1522" is 60% Pinot Noir

"1522" is 60% Pinot Noir and 40% Chardonnay from Oger and the incredible 2012 vintage

resulting juice from the tiny Old Wente bunches was fermented in predominately neutral barrels and aged for 11 months on lees

and never pumped over or punched down

whose family has spent nearly twenty years stewarding benchland sites at the foot of the Mayacamas first planted in the 1870s — the same stretch of Napa that made the region's reputation

The Brut Prestige by Duc de Romet is a blend of mostly pinot meunier and a quarter pinot noir

Barrat-Masson Champagne Brut Nature Millesime 2012 (1.5L) SPCALIFORNIA "1522" is 60% Pinot NoirSome bottles feel like time capsules, and this is one of them: a 2012 grower Champagne, Brut Nature, in magnum. Loic Barrat and Aurelie Masson farm their vines organically in southern Champagne and vinify with a farmer's precision, nothing added to sweeten or soften, just a clean, ringing expression of place. Magnum tells its own story, since Champagne ages more slowly and more gracefully in large format; pair that with the great 2012 harvest and you