Marie-Noelle LeDru, Champagne Grand Cru Cuvee du Goulte, 2010 SFCOUNT010925 Fermented with native yeasts and

Fermented with native yeasts and aged in neutral vessels

and it is a sleeper

It captures Lazio’s new wave of natural winemaking: small production

with no new oak and long aging in large Slavonian casks

The tannins are firm but polished

Marie-Noelle LeDru, Champagne Grand Cru Cuvee du Goulte, 2010 SFCOUNT010925 Fermented with native yeasts and2010 was the year Champagne would rather forget a dry start, then rain at exactly the wrong moment, with rot that forced growers to cut away huge amounts of fruit which is precisely why a bottling from a two hectare grower who did all her own sorting by hand is worth seeking out. Marie Nolle Ledru farmed her Ambonnay Grand Cru Pinot Noir without herbicides or pesticides and retired after the 2016 harvest, so nothing more is coming. "Goult" is local