François Mikulski, Crémant de Bourgogne, France NV

The Mikulski Crémant de Bourgogne is made of 50% Pinot Noir, 35% Chardonnay and 15% Aligoté, from vines in Meursault and Rully.

Mikulski’s Crémant has an expressive nose of white fruits dominated by apple, citrus fruits in the background, lime and grapefruit, fine herbs add dynamics, finally a note of very ripe pear mixed with a touch of quince. A great Brut level sparkler for any occasion.

Hand harvested. Fermented and aged in stainless steel. Aged on the lees for 18 months.

François’ Mikulski’s father was Lieutenant Mieczyslaw Mikulski who escaped from occupied Poland in 1939, fleeing to England and joining the Resistance troops of the Free Polish Forces. There he met his future wife, a Burgundian woman working on an English army base, and moved to Brussels where François was born and raised.

Luckily for us and the world of wine, François Mikulski spent his formative summers in Burgundy, where he fell in love with the agrarian lifestyle and determined that he would one day make wine himself. He inherited his first plots of Meursault in 1992 from his late uncle, Pierre Boillot. Since that time, he has relentlessly pursued his authenticity, purity and elegance through acute attention to biological balance in the vineyard and terroir minded élevage practices in the cellar.