Etienne Calsac Champagne Extra Brut L'Echappee Belle NV CS20230713 It's tangy and mineral with

It's tangy and mineral with an unusual softness — that's the Pinot Blanc talking

and complexity

yet delicious

In contrast

Etienne Calsac Champagne Extra Brut L'Echappee Belle NV CS20230713 It's tangy and mineral withL'chappe Belle means something like 'the great escape,' which is more or less what Etienne Calsac pulled off in 2010: at 26 he took back his grandparents' three hectares around Avize, land that had been quietly rented out to the big Champagne houses for years. He seeded the rows with grass, started plowing, and moved the farming to organics. This is the result all Chardonnay, leaning on the cooler village of Grauves, aged three years on the lees, and