Really loving this year’s crop Crémant d’Alsace sparklers, including this honey-hued biodynamic blend of 60% Auxerrois and 40% Pinot blanc from Camille Braun. It’s expansive on the nose, expressing baked apple and poached pear along with a heady topnote of shortbread, brioche, and earth. In the mouth, there’s weight, but there’s nice palate tension, too—a sensation that comes across as a bright, pleasant streak of bitterness—pink grapefruit pith puncturing wet dough. 12.5% ABV | Sample
8.9 Points