2024 Casal Farneto "Pao" Verdicchio, Marche, ItalyABOUT THIS WINE The wine is obtained by maceration of must, in contact with skins and yeasts, in terracotta and ceramic for several months. Everything that is in the skin is found in the wine. After fermentation, the wine ages for at least 3 months in the bottle. ABOUT THIS PRODUCER In Le Marche region, in between the sea and the Apennines, one of the most beautiful hilly landscapes of Anconas province unfolds its the land of prestigious wines such as

Mathieu and Emmanuelle saw the opportunity to use these 7 ha of vines as a home to experiment

on the edge of Austria’s Kamptal region

and aged in a mix of older oak barrels and concrete to preserve brightness and texture

With time the wine becomes more concentrated loosing water and gaining in complexity

Under the guidance of Chief Winemaker Virginia Willcock

Following the traditional méthode champenoise

The 2023 Peter Lauer 'No

80% of the harvest comes from 2017 and 20% from Reserve wine

There he met Kent Humphrey of Eric Kent Wines

Orthogneiss soils

in crafting his extraordinary line-up

This cuvée is the platonic ideal of growers’ champagne - one that seamlessly weaves the minerality in the soils with the delicate aromas of grapes from a blend of 30 parcels within Vrigny