Champagne Fluence Brut Nature Franck Pascal NV

Champagne Fluence Brut Nature Franck Pascal NV, Organic Champagne, low sulphites, soft and elegant wine with great style. Fluence is a classic blend of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Meunier with quite a high proportion of Pinot Meunier. It is a stunningly soft and elegant mousse with fresh up front citrus and stones fruits, some lovely creamy, biscuity notes and an exceptionally clan finish. Style and quality is sometimes imperceptible with Champagne, you are not sure why it is just right, you know that it is, this is very much the case with Fluence. It is on the one hand, a simple wine with a very subtle character but at the same time achieving this with depth and complexity shows the hand of a great wine maker and a superb vine grower.

Franck Pascal started out as an engineer but the sad death of his brother and his spell in military service led to his taking over the family vines and a direction towards not just organic production but a fully integrated, holistic approach to vineyard management and wine production. 'After military service taught me all about the horrors of biological warfare and its effects on humans, I wanted to learn better methods of working with nature rather than using pesticides and herbicides for vines.' In everything he does, Franck goes a stage further. He developed his own natural compost after intense analysis of his soils and the small 7 hectare farm in Baslieux-sous-Châtillon is mostly ploughed using horses. Franck has also become a highly skilled wine maker and transforms his superb quality fruit into wine of great elegance and subtlety.