Champagne – Chardonnay-dominant growers

Agrapart et Fils, Côte des Blancs

This was my second visit to the family grower Agrapart, but the first was so long ago that oak, then, was a very strange foreign substance. Nowadays the long-aged 600-litre casks are very much part of this particularly artisanal grower.

Pascal Agrapart needs a little drawing out but eventually divulged some very interesting information and opinion. They make an average of 100,000 bottles a year, exclusively...