Les Fontaines R21

From the 2021 harvest, Les Fontaines is a rosé Champagne made in the customary assemblage rosé style of the region — approximately 10% of the juice is from Pinot Noir vinified as red wine and mixed into 90% from blanc de noir of Pinot Noir.  The Pinot destined for red wine is harvested about a fortnight after the normal harvest has finished so as to obtain more ripeness. A year of about 30% barrel/70% tank aging before bottling.

Grapes: 100% Pinot Noir
Disgorged: April 17, 2024
Region: Champagne (Côte des Bar)

About the domaine: Raphaël Piconnet and Hannah Boesel make beautiful, soulful zero-dosage Champagnes and delicious Coteaux Champenois from a variety of sloped chalky parcels in the Côte des Bar, overlooking the Seine.

There's a real energy in this part of Champagne, we're far from the monoculture of the Marne up north. The small winemaking village of Neuville-sur-Seine is just a few miles from source of the Seine river (which is just a couple of meters wide as it winds its way through the Aube). It's wild and wooded — hunting grounds and wheat farms mix with vines — and the Bichery wines reflect this biodiversity.