Flancourt Champagne Brut Chronique NV 2025 L'Assemblage Part 1 Native fermentation in a mix

Native fermentation in a mix of neutral puncheon and stainless steel preserves the aromatics

ferment on wild yeast and age on full lees for the better part of a year

and a quinine edge that snaps the whole thing back into focus

this is Chardonnay built around freshness and place

Flancourt Champagne Brut Chronique NV 2025 L'Assemblage Part 1 Native fermentation in a mixChampagne's next generation doesn't always inherit a famous name sometimes it starts one. Quentin Richard came up in the orbit of Francis Boulard et Fille, one of the region's quiet biodynamic standard bearers, and now makes his own wine in the Valle de la Marne under the Flancourt label. Chronique is the calling card: a near even split of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir with a fifth Pinot Meunier, farmed biodynamically. The Marne is Meunier country, and