Odyssée 319 Avize Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs (d2025-10)

Every voyage needs a home port, and this is the one for Olivier Bonville and Ferdinand Ruelle. The numbered days of the Odyssée are meant to set out across Champagne's villages, while the Brut Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs stays in the Côte des Blancs. The two call it the anchor point of their adventure, the wine that lays the foundations before they set off.

This release is built on 2023, with 2022 and 2021 behind it, and it was dosed at 4.2 g/L. That is less sugar than the earlier release their tech sheet describes, which took 5.8 g/L.

That sheet, for a blend of 2022, 2020 and 2018, shows how that release was made: fermentation in steel tanks, malolactic, and 24 months on the lees. Its main lieux-dits were in three grand crus: Chemin de Flavigny, Les Regards d'Avize and Les Chemins de Chalons in Avize; Les Bergeries au Couchant and Les Chemins de Chalons in Cramant; and Les Champs Néron in Oger. The label and the house's site present the wine as Avize, the village the whole voyage started from.