Jerome Bretaudeau Domaine de Bellevue La Justice 2024 CS20231026 and generously styled Champagne with

and generously styled Champagne with a fine mousse

and honeycomb

and subtle honey notes

A single-village rose Champagne built almost entirely from Chouilly Grand Cru Chardonnay (88%)

Jerome Bretaudeau Domaine de Bellevue La Justice 2024 CS20231026 and generously styled Champagne withJerome Bretaudeau is rewriting the rulebook in Muscadet country, and La Justice is a perfect example of his curiosity. Rather than Melon de Bourgogne, this Vin de France cuve is Chardonnay planted on granite and quartz soils near Clisson. Fermented with indigenous yeasts and aged for around 14 months in 800 liter amphorae, it splits the difference between mineral tension and Burgundian breadth. Farmed biodynamically, made with minimal intervention. A