Pieter Ferreira Cap Classique Birdsong Extra Brut 2022 MARQUE cleansing acidity

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The burlier of the single vineyards

unfiltered snapshot of both the grape and the chalky soils of Verzy

The sweet botanicals give aromaticity and only a very small one is used part of sugar to exalt at best the salty and oxidized notes

fermenting cold

Pieter Ferreira Cap Classique Birdsong Extra Brut 2022 MARQUE cleansing acidityPieter Ferreira has been making bubbles in South Africa for four decades long enough that they call him Mr. Bubbles, and long enough that he essentially helped build the modern Cap Classique category. Now he does it under his own name, on his own terms. Birdsong is Chardonnay led with Pinot Noir, from Robertson and Stellenbosch fruit, made in the traditional method and left on the lees for well over three years before disgorgement. Extra Brut, so