Champagne Pascal Agrapart Grand Cru Minéral Blanc de Blancs 2019 (Disg. Jun 25)

Disgorged June 2025. Minéral is blended from two adjacent vieilles vignes plots (50-plus years old) on the border between Avize and Cramant, where the vine roots plunge straight into the chalky bedrock. The fruit from Le Champ Bouton in Avize fermented in tank, while the component from Les Bionnes in Cramant was vinified in 600-litre oak casks—“barrels for the expression of minerality and tank of the precision,” as Pascal put it. The wine spent over five years on lees and was dosed at 3.5 g/L. Typically the saltiest, most mineral wine in the Agrapart range, it is also incredibly iridescent and vinous this year—Burgundy-like but with an iodine/salinity that is uniquely Côte des Blancs. A thrilling and seamless release of this wine; it fizzes across the palate like Margot Fonteyn.