Domaine Genot-Boulanger Mercurey 1er Cru En Sazenay 2015 SF Chronicle This is not Champagne

This is not Champagne

bottled unfined

pergola-trained because

agave roasted in an earthen pit

Domaine Genot-Boulanger Mercurey 1er Cru En Sazenay 2015 SF Chronicle This is not ChampagneGnot Boulanger is the kind of producer Burgundy insiders trade tips about and the rest of the wine world hasn't caught up to yet. Aude and Guillaume Lavolle farm organically with biodynamic touches, work each site with a horse drawn plough, and keep new oak at 15% or less. Mercurey is where the story started, when Aude's ancestor Charles Henri Gnot broke a 20 generation pharmacist family chain to buy vines here in 1974, and the En Sazenay 1er Cru is