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Whatever your school was like โ football? yearbook editor? trigonometry? โ it was no doubt quite different than wine school in Beaune, Burgundy. There, the likes of David Croix, Mathilde Grivot, Amรฉlie Berthaut and Armand Heitz hung out drinking at Le Square and learning how to make wines. All of them are now on their way to becoming Burgundyโs new crop of stars.
Not everyone in that crowd ended up in Burgundy. Sometimes we forget how close Beaune is to Champagne, especially the Aube. If you grow up in the Aube, you actually live closer to Beaune than to Reims and many Aubois go to Beaune for schooling.
So it was that Aurรฉlien Gerbais ended up in Beaune, palling around with many of Burgundy's future stars. He even worked at one of Burgundy's well-established stars, Olivier Lamy of St. Aubin. After that amazing hands-on experience he eventually made his way back to Champagne to join another group of visionaries, Aube stars like Cedric Bouchard, Vouette & Sorbรฉe and Ulysse Collin. Even so, to this day he says, โI consider myself more Burgundian than Champenois.โ Thatโs the Aube for you.
Gerbaisโ family domaine is in the village of Celles-sur-Ource. The soils are Kimmeridgian, though there's a sector where the limestone-clay mix is nearly identical to what you find in the Cรดte dโOr. His family has farmed organically since the 1990s, but when Aurรฉlien took over (this is recently; heโs still in his 20s) he brought Lamyโs obsessive farming home with him, elevating the domaine's game even further.
Professional Reviews
Antonio Galloni
Details
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Grape Variety
Pinot Blanc
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Vintage
NV
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Size
750ml
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Farming Practice
Organic
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Style
Crisp , Fruity , Minerally
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Sweetness
Champagne Extra Brut , Dry
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Body
Light Bodied