Mathilde Savoye left her family domaine in 2017 to pursue her own vision of winemaking in Champagne. She dreams of a Champagne in harmony with the natural place where the wines reside. Her 3.5 hectares lay in the Vallée de la Marne. The vine rows grow among grasses and wildflowers and native herbs. The soil is rarely tilled and the vegetation is managed with a flock of sheep whose manure also serves as fertilizer for the vines. No chemical treatments are used at the site.

The vines for Mathilde Savoye’s Blanc de Meunier are 55 years old and 15 years old in two separate plots: ‘Les Chapelleries’ in the town of Cuchery, and a second plot called ‘La Loge des vignes’ in the town of Baslieux-sous-Chatillon. The grapes are small and deeply flavored. They are picked by hand and allowed to ferment naturally. Her cellars are very cold and block malolactic fermentation. They wine slept on the lees for 27 months and was disgorged with 6 grams per liter. The wine’s avoidance of malolactic fermentation imbues it with a prismatic brightness, moss edged and glowing with white pear and white peach, the thinnest pastry crust, and white flowers wrapped threw in a curling wisp of blue smoke.