Offer Nº 002 · this week · 32 bottles

2018 Soutiran “Millesimé”
Grand Cru Brut Ambonnay Grand Cru · Champagne

Quiet in our cellar — 214 days

The story

I · The village

One hundred percent.
The scale stops there.

Ambonnay is one of seventeen grand cru villages in all of Champagne — rated a flat 100% on the old échelle des crus, the ledger that once set the price of every grape in the region. Chalk underneath, Pinot Noir on top. The famous houses buy Ambonnay fruit to make their best bottles better.

II · The grower

The big houses call.
They don’t sell.

Soutiran is a small family house on the grand cru slope itself. Grower Champagne, plainly put: the people who farm the rows make the wine, under their own name, instead of feeding the labels up the road. Small production, village character, nothing blended away.

III · The vintage

Some years earn
their own name.

Champagne is usually a blend of years — a vintage bottle happens only when one summer is worth naming. 2018 was that summer: long, dry, generous, a ripe and healthy Pinot Noir harvest the region still talks about. Millesimé means every grape in this bottle saw it.

IV · The glass

Eight years down.
Wide awake.

Baked apple and brioche up front, hazelnut underneath, a chalk line holding the whole thing straight. Eight years from harvest, the mousse has gone from foam to filigree. It spent the last 214 days in our own cellar, getting better while nobody watched. Drink now through 2032.

V · The deal

Grand cru math,
done honestly.

$97 $69.99
  • Typically $90 and up in stores — call that an estimate; grower Ambonnay is thin on the ground. On our own shelf across town it wore a $97 tag.
  • MadWine price: $69.99.
  • Every price is above what we paid — no tricks, just better buying.

VI · The request

Thirty-two bottles.
One fair line.

Request format

Everyone gets one bottle before anyone gets two. Thirty-two bottles is the whole allocation.

No fee, no minimum, no commitment. You’re charged only when we confirm.

Getting it home

Pickup

Esquin Wine & Spirits — 2700 4th Ave S, Seattle. Your bottles are ready within a week of confirmation.

Shipping

Cases ship in the fall temperature window. Until then we hold your wine where it’s been all along — cool, dark, and ours to watch.