Champagne Nowack - Assemblage S.A. Sans Année Extra Brut

Flavien Nowack’s family has been making traditional, blended champagnes in the Marne Valley for generations in the village of Vandières. Approximately 75% of the family’s vines are planted to Meunier, with the remaining 25% planted to Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.  In 2011,  he gradually began moving his family’s estate’s production, parcel by parcel, in a new grower-oriented direction – focusing on organic farming, minimal intervention champagne-making, and single parcel, single vintage bottlings. Each year, he selects a single parcel from the family estate to rehabilitate and transition into organic farming, choosing to vinify in a way that he feels best captures the individual site. Passionate about the idea that nothing should come between the purest expression of terroir – he farms organically, does not chaptalize, and does not seek malolactic fermentation for his base wines. He relies on the natural yeast of unfermented grape must as his prise de mousse for secondary fermentation in bottle. As a result, these Champagnes are lower in pressure than typical, creating a noticeable vinous quality in these exceptionally soft and delicate wines. He is a young talent with a clear vision.