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Autre Cru

Name: Autre Cru
Brand: Nowack
Price: 49.80 EUR
Availability: InStock

A pure Meunier Champagne designed to show the Vallée de la Marne’s mineral side, not just fruit. Low dosage and barrel élevage deliver a vinous, precise profile with quiet power.

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About this wine

Autre Cru is a rigorously selected set of parcels from villages on both banks of the Marne, intentionally outside Vandières, and bottled as a terroir statement rather than a house blend. This bottling is base 2021 with a small amount of 2020 reserve wine, fermented with native yeasts, aged in small neutral barrels, and released with 1 g/L dosage—essentially “dry, but not austere.” It’s the kind of Champagne that works in white-wine stems and excels with seafood, poultry, and sauces.

Tasting Note

Pure Meunier with a quietly oxidative, barrel-shaped complexity: ripe pear, dried citrus, toasted almond and a touch of saline minerality. Ample yet lifted, with fine bubbles and a long, clean finish that balances breadth and tension.

In the glass

Pale gold; fine bead and a lightly vinous presence.

In the nose

Yellow orchard fruit, subtle spice from neutral oak, and a chalk/marl edge.

On the palate

Linear and dry; gently creamy mid-palate, finishing firm and mineral.

Nowack

A historic Vandières family in the Vallée de la Marne, with the contemporary project driven by Flavien Nowack, who has pushed the domaine toward a more terroir-explicit, parcel-by-parcel approach. The house is widely associated with Meunier and a low-intervention philosophy, with multiple bottlings built around single lieux-dits and site expression, alongside a firm commitment to organic/biodynamic practice in trade materials.

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Character of the wine

Grape Varieties

Pinot Meunier

Vinification

Base 2021 + small 2020 reserve, native-yeast fermented, unfined/unfiltered, aged in small neutral barrels, dosage 1 g/L.

Classification

Champagne AOC

Style

Mineral / Saline

Aging potential

Ideal for the next 5–10 years

Decant Time

No decanting

Drinking Temperature

9–11 °C

Body

Medium

Conservative food pairing

Oyster platter

Funky food pairing

Yuzu-dressed sashimi

Music pairing

Jazz

Art pairing

Minimalism

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