{"product_id":"2020-domaine-nowack-terres-bleues-champagne-france","title":"2020 Domaine Nowack, Terres Bleues, 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\u003eTerres Bleues sits at the very top of Flavien's best slope in Vandières, planted at 180 meters on sand and a fossil-rich limestone the locals call terres bleues — the seam of bluish marl that gives the wine its name. It's the highest-elevation meunier in the lineup, and the most filigreed. The base wine is unfined and unfiltered, aged in small oak. The 2020 has the lift and tension that altitude gives: ripe apple, citrus zest, wet stone, and a saline, mineral pulse that lingers well past the fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yes Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51630005125416,"sku":"AT20NOWACKTERRES750","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/1794\/6152\/files\/2020DomaineNowack_TerresBleues.jpg?v=1776311995","url":"https:\/\/yes-society.com\/products\/2020-domaine-nowack-terres-bleues-champagne-france","provider":"Yes Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}