More about Gallois Bouche

For any Champagne lovers out there trying to sniff out the next big thing before the secret gets out, here is a tip: follow the apprentices.

While there are a multitude of fascinating growers in Champagne right now, one of the absolute benchmarks for traditional, old-school winemaking is the singular Fabrice Gass of the tiny Alexandre Filaine estate. Thoughtful and without pretense, Fabrice makes profound, memorable wines in practically the same manner Champagne was produced a century ago. Fabrice Gass has gone full-bore cult, and we sell out of our small allocations nearly instantly.

When Fabrice was working as the barrelmaster at the legendary house of Bollinger, he mentored a young oenologist named Guillaume Gallois. Today, Guillaume has actually taken over Fabrice's old job at Bollinger as a hands-on winemaker. But more importantly for us, he has returned to his family's estate in the Premier Cru village of Vertus to launch his own wildly exciting project: Gallois-Bouché.

Guillaume is taking the exact same meticulous, one-man-band approach as his mentor, but applying it to a completely different terroir. While Fabrice works primarily with Pinot Noir in Damery, Guillaume is working with the intensely chalky soils of Vertus, focusing heavily on Chardonnay.