Champagne Fleury Blanc de Noirs

The Fleury family has been quietly rewriting the rules in Champagne for more than a hundred years. When phylloxera wiped out the vineyards, Emile Fleury was the first to graft his vines back to life in 1901. When the economy crashed in 1929, his son Robert decided to stop selling to the big houses and start making his own champagne, becoming one of the Aube's first grower-producers. And in 1989, Jean-Pierre Fleury did it again, turning the entire estate biodynamic before anyone else.

Their blanc de noirs is a precise blend of recent vintages (35% 2020, 15% 2021) and their ancient perpetual vin de réserve, aged for four years on its lees and disgorged in April 2025.

The perfect bone-dry, elegantly textured bad boy. It smells of white peach skin and powdery musk, with an earthy edge. The palate is all ripe apple, brioche, and candied lemon. It's fresh, layered, and finishes with serious length.

It's the season. We should all be having at least a sip of this.