Champagne Larmandier-Bernier Grand Cru Les Chemins d'Avize 2016 (Disg. Sep 24) casa-da-passarella mostly planted in 1910 and

mostly planted in 1910 and situated mid-slope

deglazed with soy sauce and accompanied by lightly seared white morels

The texture is compelling and leads into those delicious crème brûlée and cashew nut flavours

petits fours

Champagne Larmandier-Bernier Grand Cru Les Chemins d'Avize 2016 (Disg. Sep 24) casa-da-passarella mostly planted in 1910 andLes Chemins dAvize debuted in 2009. For this cuve, the Larmandier family vinifies fruit from two tiny plots in the heart of Avize (Chemin de Plivot, planted in 1955, and Chemin de Flavigny, planted in 1960). Both are chalky parcels with very little topsoil and lie on the lower slopes of Avize, not far from Agrapart and Selosses La Fosse vineyard. Initially, it was really tough for the vines to grow here, the soil is so hard, Arthur Larmandier told us.