Storm Hemel-en-Aarde Valley Pinot Noir Ridge 2019 Grower Champagne and a hint of graham

and a hint of graham crackers

From a small parcel of vines in the Southern Aube that the Dosnon brothers lease

Zero Infinito Crimisi by Pojer and Sandri is an ancestral organic wine

The release blends George Dickel’s column still rye produced at Cascade Hallow Distillery with Leopold Bros’ Three Chamber Rye to recreate a historic style

Storm Hemel-en-Aarde Valley Pinot Noir Ridge 2019 Grower Champagne and a hint of grahamThe Hemel en Aarde Ridge sits highest, coolest and furthest inland of the valley's three wards, and its Pinot Noir ripens last of all. Hannes Storm's Ridge bottling comes off a cool, stony parcel of clay rich Bokkeveld shale, and it is the tightest wound of his three: where his granite sites give lift, the shale gives density, structure and a savory, brooding core. Time in bottle has done the 2019 a great favor, unwinding it into something layered and