2018 Marie Courtin "Le Blanc du Tremble" NSA Amphora, Coteaux Champenois, FranceABOUT THIS WINE Based in the tiny hamlet of Polisot in the southern Cote des Bars region of Champagne, Dominique Moreau is producing some of the most dynamic and striking wines of the area. Naming her estate after her grandmother, Marie Courtin, Dominique has set out to craft Champagnes which emphasise how her specific terroir can be expressed in a given vintage. Her wines then are single vineyard and single vintage, made with meticulously grown fruit

Cima Corgo and Douro Superior

which had been abandoned in the early 1900’s when phylloxera hit the region

Donatella Cinelli Colombini owns two wineries

It was Jérôme’s father Robert who developed the estate and began a new activity of trading in grapes

Lavaux-Saint-Jacques is considered one of the top 1er crus in Gevrey

The soils are worked by plow

There are not many cellars in Burgundy where the range of wines is so consistently superb from top to bottom

Aubert was awarded Decanter Magazine’s prestigious “Man of the Year” Award

Both have made the hard philosophical decision to work exclusively with organic farmers in Stellenbosch

depending on the vineyard and grape variety

Gevrey-Chambertin

the family assets were donated to charity and a non-profit foundation was created in their name