Mitja Sirk Collio Bianco Ca'Savorgnan 2023 Jura and Savoie especially when considering the exhausting

especially when considering the exhausting effort made to craft such an inexpensive sparkler from one of the Loire Valley’s greatest terroirs

Jean-Marc Roulot's Corton-Charlemagne is a more recent addition to the lineup

and engineered for a second one

or a Champagne novice looking to get a guided tour of the bubbly revolution

Mitja Sirk Collio Bianco Ca'Savorgnan 2023 Jura and Savoie especially when considering the exhausting100% Friulano from 95 year old vines (with a parcel replanted in 2019) in a single vineyard, Ca Savorgnan tucked in the hillside of Cormons, a truly Mediterranean site that Mitja prefers to farm wild with grasses and spontaneous herbs; spontaneous fermentation and aging in new cask on fine lees until bottling in May; bottle aging for one year