Champagne Drappier Carte d'Or Brut NV 750ml Sangiovese Kirkwall sits at 58° north

Kirkwall sits at 58° north — farther north than Moscow

Works in Margaritas

FOOD PAIRING: Cheese

CONVENTIONAL : Wheated Mash — corn

more coastal slopes of the Ampeleia estate — clay and marine fossil soils that grow Mediterranean varieties almost forgotten elsewhere in Tuscany

Champagne Drappier Carte d'Or Brut NV 750ml Sangiovese Kirkwall sits at 58° northFRANCE : CHAMPAGNE : AUBE ORGANIC : Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier FULL BODIED, WHITE PEACH, BRIOCHE, TOASTED ALMOND, OAK Drappier is a family owned estate in Urville, in the Aube Champagnes southernmost sub region, where Kimmeridgian limestone gives wines a mineral backbone distinct from the Marne. The house has farmed here since 1808, and Pinot Noir has been the defining grape since the 1930s, when Michel Drappiers grandfather first replanted