Etienne Calsac Champagne Les Revenants Grand Cru The 2010 spent 18 months

The 2010 spent 18 months on the skins before aging for 42 months in barriques

People definitely don’t think of compelling wine when they think of Colorado

nothing is fined

Pour it with beef bourguignon

while the 2011 had a 6-12 month skin contact period followed by 30 months in barrels

Etienne Calsac Champagne Les Revenants Grand Cru The 2010 spent 18 monthsThe Land Nearly everything tienne Calsac farms sits in and around Avize, in the middle of the Cte des Blancs. This wine comes from somewhere else. Les Fours is a 0. 3 hectare parcel in Montgenost, at the southern end of the Cte de Szanne, the quiet stretch of Champagne that runs southwest of the Cte des Blancs and rarely gets named on a label. The plot faces due south and sits on sandy topsoil over chalk. That combination is the whole point: sand