{"product_id":"2020-domaine-nowack-la-fontinette-champagne-france","title":"2020 Domaine Nowack, La Fontinette, 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 Fontinette is a one-hectare parcel of meunier in the neighboring village of Châtillon-sur-Marne, planted by Flavien's grandfather between 1965 and 1967 by sélection massale. The vines face south-southwest on roughly two meters of heavy brown clay over white marl — a soil profile that gives the wine its particular weight and slow, drawn-out finish. Vinification is in barrel, unfined and unfiltered. The 2020 is a meunier of remarkable depth: white flowers, ripe pear, smoked almond, and a chalky, savory pull through a long finish. The cuvée that started Flavien on the single-parcel path in 2012, and still arguably the most singular wine in his lineup.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yes Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51630005059880,"sku":"AT20NOWACKFOTINETTE750","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/1794\/6152\/files\/DomaineNowack_LaFontinette.jpg?v=1776312259","url":"https:\/\/yes-society.com\/products\/2020-domaine-nowack-la-fontinette-champagne-france","provider":"Yes Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}