{"product_id":"emmanuel-brochet-champagne-le-mont-benoit-r22-nv-750ml","title":"Emmanuel Brochet, Champagne Le Mont Benoit R22, NV","description":"This is the wine at the center of Emmanuel Brochet's tiny world — the main cuvée, drawn from the single 2.5-hectare slope in Villers-aux-Noeuds that is his entire holding, and one of the most sought-after grower Champagnes anyone makes today. Mont Benoit is one hill: chalk with a layer of silt and a layer of clay over it, planted in equal thirds to Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier and Pinot Noir, with the oldest vines up top from 1962 and the youngest below from 1984. Brochet is a first-generation grower — he started in 1997, released his first label in 2002, and got organic certification in 2011 after roughly a decade of farming without chemicals — and he does nearly all the work himself, by hand. In the cellar it's a traditional vertical press, barely any sulfur, and strictly natural fermentations, including the second one in the bottle, which he coaxes along with ambient yeasts he selected himself. The R22 on the label is the harvest code, but this is a non-vintage bottling because Le Mont Benoit is always an assemblage of two years. Everything here is Extra Brut, and there's only ever 7,000 to 8,000 bottles of everything combined — so this is a buy-it-when-you-see-it proposition.","brand":"Avant Garde (T Elent) [AVG]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45559812751417,"sku":"NYC-1-AVG-`AG230057X622`-030326-2","price":159.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Emmanuel-Brochet-Champagne-Le-Mont-Benoit-R22-NV-Sparkling-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1774709066","url":"https:\/\/nyc.flatiron-wines.com\/products\/emmanuel-brochet-champagne-le-mont-benoit-r22-nv-750ml","provider":"Flatiron Wines \u0026 Spirits NYC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}