Pierre Gimonnet Champagne Blanc de Blancs 1er Cru Brut Fleuron 2019 SCCOS Rich vanilla and cinnamon with

Rich vanilla and cinnamon with roasted apple and nutmeg

no oak coloring things in

weaves spring flowers and crème de cassis with lead-pencil minerality and cedarwood

and floral notes on a clean bouquet

the flavor is rich and bittersweet

Pierre Gimonnet Champagne Blanc de Blancs 1er Cru Brut Fleuron 2019 SCCOS Rich vanilla and cinnamon withGimonnet is a Chardonnay house through and through based in Cuis, sitting on some of the oldest Chardonnay vines in the Cte des Blancs, and utterly uninterested in making anything else. Fleuron is where they turn up the intensity: mostly Grand Cru fruit from Cramant and Chouilly, rounded out with Cuis, drawn from eight separate lieux dits and bottled only in vintages worth the trouble. 2019 gives it ripeness without losing the chalk. This is Blanc de