{"product_id":"nv-clandestin-les-semblables-boreal-champagne-france-2022-base","title":"NV Clandestin, Les Semblables, Boreal, Champagne, France (2022 base)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBenoît Doussot grew up in Beaune and trained in Meursault with Jean-Philippe Fichet, one of the most exacting white-wine makers in Burgundy, while studying at the Lycée Viticole de Beaune. Freshly graduated in the summer of 2015, he devised Clandestin with Bertrand Gautherot of Vouette \u0026amp; Sorbée and made his first wines in a converted barn beside the Vouette \u0026amp; Sorbée cellar in Buxières-sur-Arce. He had no family vines, so he built the project a different way: a micro-négoce buying only organically farmed grapes from now eleven growers in the Côte des Bar, supporting their conversion to organics, paying them fairly and letting them taste the finished wine rather than watching their fruit disappear into a big house's blend. In 2023 he completed a winery of his own in Landreville, built on two levels so the wines move by gravity. The inspiration behind Clandestin is geological. The Côte des Bar sits on Kimmeridgian marl and Portlandian limestone, Jurassic soils closer to Chablis than to the chalk of the Marne, and Benoît keeps each cuvée to a single stratum and exposure so the difference can be tasted. Fermentations are long and spontaneous, the still wines spend twelve months in older 500- and 600-liter barrels, which he prefers to Burgundian pièces because they keep the wines chiseled and need less sulfur, then a winter in vat before bottling and about fifteen months on the lees. Nothing is dosed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoréal takes its name from the north. It is 100% pinot noir from four north-facing plots around Landreville, vines fifteen to thirty-five years old planted mid-slope in the same seam of Kimmeridgian limestone. The still wine aged in older barrels before its second fermentation and fifteen months sur lattes. This bottling is built on the 2022 harvest and was disgorged in April 2025.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2022 growing season in Champagne was sunny and dry, a ripe year that the cool exposures of the Côte des Bar turned to their advantage. Boréal opens on wild strawberry and redcurrant, then blood orange zest, chalk dust and a gentian-like bitterness that makes the mouth water. The perlage is fine, the palate is zesty and savory, and the finish is sleek and thirst-quenching.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yes Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52263529382184,"sku":"ATNV22CLANDESTINBOREAL750","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/1794\/6152\/files\/Clandestin_LesSemblables_Boreal.jpg?v=1789081258","url":"https:\/\/yes-society.com\/products\/nv-clandestin-les-semblables-boreal-champagne-france-2022-base","provider":"Yes Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}