Benoit Lahaye Champagne Extra Brut Blanc de Noirs NV FRFLSH A complex offering from Springbank

A complex offering from Springbank

with the fruit pulled taut rather than plump

with iodine and lapsang souchong tea in the foreground

Great after dinner or in cocktails

Aged in American white-oak barrels

Benoit Lahaye Champagne Extra Brut Blanc de Noirs NV FRFLSH A complex offering from SpringbankBenoit Lahaye is one of a tiny handful of Champagne growers who still plows his vineyards with a horse, part of a biodynamic conviction that has run deep since the 1990s in his Grand Cru village of Bouzy. This Blanc de Noirs is 100% Pinot Noir, a white Champagne made entirely from black grapes, bottled unfiltered and dosed barely at all. Farming this carefully lets him pick genuinely ripe fruit, so the wine stays pure and low dosage without ever