Pierre Gerbais Champagne Extra Brut Grains de Celles NV NET Rare Wine Co

Rare Wine Co

The saignée method imparts a vivid color and a more structured

since its introduction

Their wines have the long lees aging and careful production that you see in much higher priced Champagne

Marc-Andre Roy and winemaker Jared Etzel launched the project in 2012

Pierre Gerbais Champagne Extra Brut Grains de Celles NV NET Rare Wine CoAurlien Gerbais went to wine school in Beaune, not Reims which makes sense, because if you grow up in the Aube you live closer to Burgundy than to the rest of Champagne. He worked with Olivier Lamy in St. Aubin, came home to Celles sur Ource, and still says he considers himself more Burgundian than Champenois. Grains de Celles is the flagship: Pinot Noir with Chardonnay and a full quarter Pinot Blanc, a grape almost nobody in Champagne bothers with