J. Charpentier Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut NV 750ml Domestic - Cabernet Sauvignon — an independent bottler based

— an independent bottler based in Lexington

" Jack Suckling 94 Points

the après-ski pour by the fire

500 cases annually

J. Charpentier Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut NV 750ml Domestic - Cabernet Sauvignon — an independent bottler basedJ. Charpentier is exactly the kind of producer that the term "grower Champagne" was coined to describe an independent winemaker who controls the entire process from vine to bottle using exclusively their own family's grapes, rather than a ngociant house that buys fruit from growers across the region. The story begins five generations ago, in the 1920s, with two men on parallel paths: Pierre Charpentier and Henri Claisse, both committed to growing the