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Slater Run Vineyards, Blanc de Blancs Brut, Middleburg 2017 90

N/A UK www.slaterrun.com

later Run’s estate was designed by ampelographer Lucie Morton, the first American woman to attend the viticulture course at Montpellier’s national agronomy school. Made in the Champagne method with 24 months on lees, this has a terrific mousse, aromas of tart apple and yeasty autolytic notes. As it opens, the palate turns from green citrus to

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