Brocard Pierre Champagne Extra Brut Contree Noire 2018 NO20230830 On the palate there is

On the palate there is apricot

is blended with 13% Pinot Noir red wine from the historical parcel ‘Clos Colin’

Now approaching a decade in bottle

and the Grand Reserve is where the Champagne half of that brain trust really shows

elegant and complex

Brocard Pierre Champagne Extra Brut Contree Noire 2018 NO20230830 On the palate there isGrower Champagne from the Cote des Bar, the wild south of the region that's been quietly stealing the spotlight. Thibaud Brocard, fifth generation, refocused the family house on single vineyard, single vintage, single grape bottlings, and this is Pinot Noir at its most transparent: a Blanc de Noirs (a white wine from a red grape) off one organically farmed plot planted back in 1962. Nearly five years on the lees give it depth, and a low dosage Extra