{"product_id":"clandestin-champagne-boreal-blanc-de-noirs-brut-nature-nv-2023","title":"Clandestin, Champagne Boreal Blanc de Noirs Brut Nature, NV [2023] (Pre-Arrival ETA Early November 2026)","description":"Boréal (\"northern\") is half of a side-by-side experiment: Benoit Doussot bottles his north-facing Pinot Noir parcels on their own and his south-facing ones as a sister cuvée called Austral. Both are made every year, so you can taste what a slope's exposure does to Champagne. Doussot came to the Côte des Bar from Burgundy with no family vines. He started Clandestin in 2015, and the fruit comes from organic growers. You can see the Burgundian thinking in the whole project. The name means \"hidden\" or \"undercover,\" and the idea is to vinify by soil type and exposure, the way a Côte d'Or domaine thinks about individual sites. This is a Blanc de Noirs Brut Nature, meaning white Champagne from black grapes with no sweetening dosage, so nothing smooths over what the vineyard gives. Doussot ferments the base wines in large 500- and 600-liter oak barrels and bottles them at relatively low pressure, which makes for a more vinous Champagne. This bottling is from the 2023 base, the same year Clandestin finished its new hilltop winery in Landreville, built to give the wines more time in barrel and on their lees. If you can find a bottle of Austral, open the two together. It's one of the more fun lessons Champagne has to offer.","brand":"Polaner [POL]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50715825012793,"sku":"NYC-W-POL-`FCA312`-100826-27","price":99.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/template-bottleimg_e6d1756a-397c-4511-9d06-66777500d5de.jpg?v=1791908832","url":"https:\/\/nyc.flatiron-wines.com\/products\/clandestin-champagne-boreal-blanc-de-noirs-brut-nature-nv-2023","provider":"Flatiron Wines \u0026 Spirits NYC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}