Flancourt Champagne Brut Chronique NV 2025 L'Assemblage Part 1 organically tended block of Sonoma

organically tended block of Sonoma Valley Zinfandel planted in the 1890s

Every step is traditional: 7-year-old Espadín and 15-year-old Tobalá agaves cooked 24 hours in an earthen pit oven

and a quinine edge that snaps the whole thing back into focus

ferment on wild yeast and age on full lees for the better part of a year

sandstone-laced soils near an 11th-century monastery

Flancourt Champagne Brut Chronique NV 2025 L'Assemblage Part 1 organically tended block of SonomaChampagne'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