Champagne Larmandier-Bernier Grand Cru Les Chemins d'Avize 2016 (Disg. Sep 24) castro-ventosa bracing acidity and a long

bracing acidity and a long

This delicious and racy white comprises 45% Sémillon

almond nose

with the fruit offset by chalky

Grenache Blanc

Champagne Larmandier-Bernier Grand Cru Les Chemins d'Avize 2016 (Disg. Sep 24) castro-ventosa bracing acidity and a longLes Chemins dAvize debuted in 2009. For this cuve, the Larmandier family vinifies fruit from two tiny plots in the heart of Avize (Chemin de Plivot, planted in 1955, and Chemin de Flavigny, planted in 1960). Both are chalky parcels with very little topsoil and lie on the lower slopes of Avize, not far from Agrapart and Selosses La Fosse vineyard. Initially, it was really tough for the vines to grow here, the soil is so hard, Arthur Larmandier told us.