Region
France › Champagne › Côte des Blancs › Avize › Champagne AOC
Type
white · traditional · sparkling · extra-brut
Grapes
Chardonnay
Alcohol
12.5%
Volume
750 mL
Dosage
3 g/L
Disgorged
2025-04
On lees
36 months (3 years)
Tasting Notes(3)
4.0
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L'Échappée Belle - the name is a French phrase for a great escape - is Calsac's flagship Blanc de Blancs, built entirely from Chardonnay grown on the chalk. The fruit is a selection of his chalky terroirs across Champagne: Montgenost, Bisseuil, Grauves and Avize.
It is made the way he makes everything: spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts, malolactic carried through, and no filtering. After about three years on the lees it is finished as an extra-brut with a barely-there three grams of dosage, leaving the chalk and citrus to do the talking. Precise, mineral and chalk-driven.
