Pierre Louis Lesage Champagne Grand Cru Cramant 2000 Region_Sonoma the negociant house he founded

the negociant house he founded in 1990 because he couldn't yet afford the vineyards he wanted to work with

baking spice

He began bottling this Clisson cuvee in 2005 from a stand of 50-to-100-year-old vines

made a short drive from these vines

Big Basin Vineyards is committed to organic farming practices

Pierre Louis Lesage Champagne Grand Cru Cramant 2000 Region_Sonoma the negociant house he foundedThe Land Grand cru in Champagne means something different from grand cru in Burgundy. In Burgundy the classification is drawn plot by plot. In Champagne it rates entire villages. The echelle des crus, formalized in 1919, scored communes on a percentage scale that set grape prices, with seventeen villages sitting at 100 percent and roughly forty four premier crus between 90 and 99. So every vine inside the Cramant boundary carries the grand cru rating,