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OCTOBER 2024

Terroir, terroir, terroir

Dear Extra Brut Friends,

This month we're taking a deeper look at Grower Champagnes by tasting two wines that, while very different in many respects (region, grape, winemaking choices), show what unites our favorite Growers: a fanatical devotion to expressing their terroir.

Cheers,

Your Friends at Flatiron Wines

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GROWER CHAMPAGNE

A guide to the best bubbles in the world and what makes them different from the Grandes Marques

Champagne is the world’s most famous sparkling wine. Hailing from the Champagne regions of France, its biggest names are among the biggest names in wine: Moet, Dom Perignon, Veuve Clicquot, Cristal.

But there’s another side to Champagne: a universe of small-scale producers preserving ancient family farming traditions and bottling wines you’ve never heard of.

These are the Grower Champagnes.