A blend of Cortland and bitter sweet apples with Cabernet Franc skins macerated during fermentation. Lightly sparkling cider with berry aromas and loads of tannins giving it body. Delicious served with food. Native yeast fermentation, unfiltered, and with no added sulfites.
Mostly Chardonnay, with the remaining 5% split between Muscadet, Riesling, Savagnin, and Ehrenfelser, this cuvee is a nod to the farmers, interred in the eponymous cemetery nearby, who first tilled the soil on which these grapes are grown. Solemn, but not intolerably so.
A blend of all three Champagne grapes grown on the coolest plots (the "lieux frais" of the name) l'Espiegle has, aged for 34 months on lees. Fresh Brie rind and lemon on the nose, with all the creamy complexity you could ask for on the palate.