ORBAN, FRANCIS BRUT NON VINTAGE L'ORBAN

‘L’Orbane’ is both a tribute to winemaker Francis Orban’s ancestors who planted many of the estate’s Pinot Meunier vines nearly a century ago, and to the prowess and perfection of pure Meunier Champagne on the peerless soils of the Marne. Francis hand-selects Meunier from 100-year-old vines from his home town of Leuvrigny for L’Orbane, ferments juice in French oak barrels and ages the wine for eight years in bottle. Rich and weighty, with endless spiced complexity and verve. (Note: The 2014 vintage is the last vintage that winemaker Francis Orban produced a L’Orbane; from the 2015 vintage onward, he has created three single-vineyard wines to highlight his family’s best terroirs. The first, ‘Les Hauts Beugnets,’ was released in 2023.)