Champagne Germar Breton | Champagne, France
The Breton family are from the very south of Champagne in the Aube, where the landscape is more Burgundian than classic Champenois.
A little more clay in the chalky soil and a few more sunshine hours give wines that are generous and approachable and, most importantly, affordable.
Modest growers who have produced grapes for centuries but have only made the Champagne wines themselves for roughly forty years. They are finding their feet, and producing wines that cause irritation to the grander names further north.