Antoine Derigny is crafted by the Bernard Remy Champagne estate, with Bernard’s son, Rudy, steering the course of these wines since 2008. The estate is located in the village of Allemant on the Cóte de Blancs, not far from the big and bustling cities of Reims and Epernay. With 11 hectares of vines throughout Montagne de Reims (including the aforementioned Le Mesnil) Rudy thoughtfully composes his blends by weaving the flavors, textures, and aromatic complexities of myriad lots of chardonnay into this brilliant bubbly.

Cooling, rich, and skin-tingling, this is chockablock with toasty and citrusy luminosity, a veritable breadbasket of titillating flavors that range from sweet bread dough, toasty croissant, butter cookie, candied lemon, crisp Asian pear, ginger and lemon oil extract… beautifully fresh, pure, and immensely satisfying. We don’t have a ton of this (we tried our best to secure two tons) so do yourself a solid and hoard as much of this as you can!