Etienne Calsac Champagne Extra Brut L'Echappee Belle NV QUANTITY CHECK 5% ABV) with Kentucky limestone-filtered

5% ABV) with Kentucky limestone-filtered water

butterscotch laden aroma and vanilla rich mouthfeel

dry backbone

Spanish Sherry butts and Spanish Malaga casks

with a deep library of reserve wines and long time on the lees doing the heavy lifting

Etienne Calsac Champagne Extra Brut L'Echappee Belle NV QUANTITY CHECK 5% ABV) with Kentucky limestone-filteredL'chappe Belle means something like 'the great escape,' which is more or less what Etienne Calsac pulled off in 2010: at 26 he took back his grandparents' three hectares around Avize, land that had been quietly rented out to the big Champagne houses for years. He seeded the rows with grass, started plowing, and moved the farming to organics. This is the result all Chardonnay, leaning on the cooler village of Grauves, aged three years on the lees, and