{"product_id":"2012-domaine-nowack-la-tuilerie-long-vieillissement-champagne-france","title":"2012 Domaine Nowack, La Tuilerie, Long Vieillissement, Champagne, France","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Nowack family has been in the village of Vandières, in the Marne Valley, since 1795. Flavien Nowack returned home in 2011 after studies in Avize and a formative stint in Meursault at Coche-Dury, and has spent the years since pulling the family domaine, slowly and methodically, into a new orbit: organic and biodynamic farming, indigenous yeasts, no chaptalization, tirage under cork, and long aging on the lees before disgorgement. He works roughly nine hectares (roughly three-quarters meunier, with chardonnay and pinot noir filling out the rest) and produces around 30,000 bottles a year. His farming reaches well past organic certification: agroforestry, more than a hundred trees planted among the vines, and a parcel-by-parcel approach to the estate itself — each plot converted to organic farming on its own schedule, vinified separately, and bottled as a single-site, single-vintage wine. The Vandières terroir has historically lived in the shadow of the more storied villages further east, and Flavien's project is, in essence, the long treatise that it shouldn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLa Tuilerie is a 1.20-hectare parcel of chardonnay just below the Nowack cellar in Vandières, mid-slope, facing south-southwest. The topsoil is thin and full of pierre meulière — the gritstone that, in Flavien's words, gives the wine its menthol and pepper edge — over a deep vein of white, calcareous sand and a foundation of marl. The \"L.V.\" (Long Vieillissement) bottling is a rare late release of the vintage Tuilerie, given more than ten years on the lees in bottle before disgorgement. Fermentation in a combination of small barrel and stainless, aged in barrel as vin clair, never fined or filtered, with malolactic completing naturally in the spring. Disgorged at 1 g\/L. The 2012 is exactly the case for what extended lees aging does to a serious chardonnay: ripe citrus, white peach, acacia, toasted almond, and a chalky tension that drives the finish for what feels like a full minute. A wine of remarkable depth and a long horizon ahead.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yes Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51630005190952,"sku":"AT12NOWACKTUILERIE750","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/1794\/6152\/files\/DomaineNowack_LaTuilerie_LongVieillissement.jpg?v=1776311849","url":"https:\/\/yes-society.com\/products\/2012-domaine-nowack-la-tuilerie-long-vieillissement-champagne-france","provider":"Yes Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}