JUNE 2024

Caillez Lemaire “Pur Meunier” 2016 This is actually the bottle we thought of first when we dreamed up our club. It’s a wine made it minuscule quantity and is the absolute definition of a mono-cru wine. It’s all from the village of Damery. All the grapes come from Damery, the wood for the barrels come from the forest on the top of the hill in Damery and the barrels never left Champagne to be constructed. 100% Meunier all from the harvest of 2016. It gives you a very specific look at a great winemaker, one of their best plots of their best grape, Meunier, and a year that really only the best made wines of this quality. It’s the exact opposite of a Grande Marque wine and we love it. If you saw the first edition of ‘one bottle review’ this will look very familiar to you. It’s one to be enjoyed alone or with friends. TECH SHEET

Daniel Moreau “Pièce Maîtresse” Précise, exacting, uncompromising. This describes not only the wine making of Bastien Moreau but the Champagne he has created. He’s been making wines the way his dad did in the 80’s. That’s usually a really bad thing, but not here. There have been no chemicals in the vineyards since 1978 and biodiversity has been commonplace since the 1990’s. In short they were cool before it was cool. This wine is a blend of all three grapes and all grown in close proximity to the cellar. There are 16 individual vineyards all within 10km of each other. The wines are always from one vintage and only made when the conditions are right. Only 8 vintages have been made over the last 30 years. We are very excited about this month’s offerings. TECH SHEET