Bernard Fouquet Vouvray Brut

Bernard Fouquet has spent forty years working some of Vouvray’s finest Chenin Blanc vineyards, and it shows. He knows how to master that electric pull between bright fruit, nervy acidity, and the deep mineral grip of flint and chalk in his wines.

Made from 100% Chenin using the traditional method, this one is fermented partly in older barrels, aged on its lees for two to two-and-a-half years, and finished with a 4gr/L of dosage. It's dry, it's precise. It's smoke, golden pear, mirabelle plum, wet stones. The palate is fresh and layered. Baked apple, confit pear, wrapped in bubbles.

Open it with anything (or nothing) because bubbles this good (and at this price point) should be drunk like Diet Coke. It’d be great with a roasted bird, too. Chenin is always so perfect it makes my heart squeeze.