Florent Cosme, Vouvray Champs Rougets, 2023 bordeaux_futures_2019 If you don't have the

If you don't have the cellar space

Serious grower Champagne at a price that still feels honest

The steep slope's excellent east-south-east exposure means sun-ripened fruit balanced by alpine cool

or in your favorite cocktail

but there's a surprising depth and structure underneath

Florent Cosme, Vouvray Champs Rougets, 2023 bordeaux_futures_2019 If you don't have theFlorent Cosme cut his teeth managing vines for Vincent Careme before striking out on his own, and his tiny Vouvray estate sits on the steepest, rockiest stretch of the Premiere Cote above the village of Noizay. Champs Rougets is a single vineyard, bone dry Chenin Blanc from old vines, farmed biodynamically and coaxed along with native yeasts, no malolactic, and a rest in older barrels. That means all the electric acidity and stony precision Chenin