2021 M.Lefebure, Nos Esprit libres e contents - Champagne Extra Brut - 2 Flaschen (0,75 l)

Just over 5.5 hectares cultivated mainly on the lands of the Coteaux du Petit Morin and a small part in Côte de Bars, a wine-growing management as 'clean' as possible and compatible with the needs of the soils (conversion to Bio is underway), a maniacal attention to the ripening and integrity of the fruit and a small cellar conducted with an artisanal spirit (all by gravity, no clarification or filtration, fermentations strictly in wood) by a young winemaker, Marie Lauréne and her husband Sébastien: this is the backstory that animates the champagnes M. Lefébure, wines capable of combining integrity and elegance, roundness and tension, depth and lightness. After a degree from the Sorbonne in art history and archaeology, a decade of work experience in Paris and a film known to (real) enthusiasts, 'Mondovino', which enlightens her, Marie Lauréne decides to abandon the city's frenzy and a career in the direction of art and return to the vineyards of Champagne. Resumes the oenological training to

Avize, where she meets Sébastien, her husband and, together, they get help from the Horiot couple (long-time winemakers in Les Riceys) who, in addition to their experience as winemakers, will transmit to them a vocation that, in the vineyard as in the cellar, winks at Burgundy. All supported by a unique territory like that of Coteaux du Petit Morin characterized by chalky, clayey soils and precious flint blocks capable of giving L. Lefébure champagnes marked notes of flint and pyric powder. Like their 'Nos esprits libre et content', composed of 70% meunier and 30% chardonnay, which is expressed on sumptuous buttery and fruity notes suggestions of apple, citrus, which soon leave room for darker smoked sensations, pyric powder, dark minerality. For an enveloping, fresh and saline mouth, where the sensations of the fruit return, crunchy, and where the gustatory progression is yes sinuous but also dynamic, flexible, vibrant. It's pure and delicious, it gets better with the bottle open and finishes in an instant. A debut of applause, good!