Champagne Philipponnat - Royal Réserve Brut rather than crown caps

rather than crown caps

the winery uses low input viticulture and non-interventionist winemaking to make exclusive vintages that carry with them a sense of time and place

BC wine pioneer Joe Busnardo came upon an excellent property sheltered below the rugged desert bluffs of what is now known as the Golden Mile Bench

windy and rugged climate of Cawston

Champagne Philipponnat - Royal Réserve Brut rather than crown capsPhilipponnat crafts its wines using exclusively first press juice from the finest grapes, mainly from Premier and Grand Cru plots, and is committed to harvesting grapes when they reach greater maturity than the average in the Champagne wine growing region. A portion of the wines is fermented or matured in casks, which is exceptional for Champagne; aging in wood gives them greater complexity without in any way coarsening them. Wines are aged in the