Sebastien Girost, Champagne Brut Reserve, NV Win Back Winter 2020 and sweet and bitter orange

and sweet and bitter orange

this Carignan is full of dark fruit—blackberry

when the founders found themselves stuck in the Catskills

This is Cristom at full volume—expressive

Ideal as an aperitif or paired with oysters

Sebastien Girost, Champagne Brut Reserve, NV Win Back Winter 2020 and sweet and bitter orangeGrower Champagne from a corner of the region most drinkers have never visited. Sebastien Girost farms a tiny 4 hectare family estate in the village of Congy, in the Vallee du Petit Morin, where his family has worked the vines for nearly a century; he began estate bottling in 2002. Each of his 22 plots is vinified separately, partly in neutral oak from top Burgundy and Champagne growers (Egly Ouriet among them), with farming as natural as the vintage