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Last week I spend a week in Champagne tasting in different fairs and I visit some great grower champagne… Some review below:   Benoit Marguet   A new small négociant producer. Benoit Marguet is the son of the former Champagne Marguet-Bonnerave single estate (RM) based in Grand Cru village Ambonnay on the Montaqgne de Reims. His new concern is a small négociant (NM) Marguet Père et Fils which buys in nearly all of its grape needs, partly from the remaining family vineyards and from a network of likeminded growers. Benoit is  also very involved with the viticulture at Launois, he married The daughter of Launois Severine. This producer is committed to organic working and some aspects of biodynamics involving working by the phases of the moon. No herbicides or pesticides are used. That cultivation drives root systems deeper, making for better vine water supply as roots are forced to go deeper. He experiments with cover crop too, believing grass removing the nitrogen and

An independent Alsatian producer. Mr Bruno Schuller in the commune of Husseren-les-Chateaux south west of Colmar. Since he was 18 years old has been working at Gerard Schueller Pere & Fills on 10 hectare of vineyards only 1ha dedicated to Pinot noir and two grand cru vineyards Eichberg and Pfersigberg in the commune of Eguisheim. However one of his most underground wine coming for the lieux-dit Bildstoeccklè on the town of Obermorschwihr in an exclusively calcareous soil. On e of the things really interesting me about this producers, often his wines do not pass the test of INAO; but this seems not worry this crazy artisan. This 2012 was close and reductive at the beginning but after a while we decanted it coming out delicate aromas of green Thea, ripe yellow peach, yellow plum with minerality always in tension, nervous and salty; great delicacy acidity. I bought 2 bottles one I will drink in 10 years time and I will back here to tell you how is ageing  ‪#‎ mineralwine‬   ‪#