Barrat-Masson Champagne Brut Nature Millesime 2012 (1.5L) SPCALIFORNIA "1522" is 60% Pinot Noir

"1522" is 60% Pinot Noir and 40% Chardonnay from Oger and the incredible 2012 vintage

Sweet and savory

The Brut Prestige by Duc de Romet is a blend of mostly pinot meunier and a quarter pinot noir

whose family has spent nearly twenty years stewarding benchland sites at the foot of the Mayacamas first planted in the 1870s — the same stretch of Napa that made the region's reputation

Barrat-Masson Champagne Brut Nature Millesime 2012 (1.5L) SPCALIFORNIA "1522" is 60% Pinot NoirSome bottles feel like time capsules, and this is one of them: a 2012 grower Champagne, Brut Nature, in magnum. Loic Barrat and Aurelie Masson farm their vines organically in southern Champagne and vinify with a farmer's precision, nothing added to sweeten or soften, just a clean, ringing expression of place. Magnum tells its own story, since Champagne ages more slowly and more gracefully in large format; pair that with the great 2012 harvest and you