Domaine Genot-Boulanger Mercurey 1er Cru En Sazenay 2015 Lanson Rose Champagne and vanilla aromatics with focused

and vanilla aromatics with focused citrus and pear on a creamy

perfumed lift that is pure Arlot

The chalky soils here do something specific to Chardonnay: they give it lift and tension rather than weight

An impossibly fresh

Domaine Genot-Boulanger Mercurey 1er Cru En Sazenay 2015 Lanson Rose Champagne and vanilla aromatics with focusedGnot Boulanger is the kind of producer Burgundy insiders trade tips about and the rest of the wine world hasn't caught up to yet. Aude and Guillaume Lavolle farm organically with biodynamic touches, work each site with a horse drawn plough, and keep new oak at 15% or less. Mercurey is where the story started, when Aude's ancestor Charles Henri Gnot broke a 20 generation pharmacist family chain to buy vines here in 1974, and the En Sazenay 1er Cru is