Domaine Les Monts Fournois’ Champagne Grand Cru Blanc de Noirs Verzenay 2013 is a focused, Pinot Noir–only Champagne from the Grand Cru village of Verzenay in the Montagne de Reims. The wine is listed at 12.5% alcohol, and it is positioned as the oldest available vintage for this cuvée, with a current market price around $289.

The estate itself is part of Champagne’s new wave, founded by Raphaël and Vincent Bérêche together with their cousin and winemaker Juliette Alips. Wilson Daniels, which imports the wines, frames the project around tight site expression—“One terroir, one family, one champagne… one unique expression per vintage”—and places the domaine in Ludes, in the Montagne de Reims sub-area it calls “La Grande Montagne.” While the domaine has its own base in Ludes (Premier Cru), this Verzenay bottling sits at the top of the classification pyramid as a Grand Cru wine.

Background context matters here. Until Alips’ first fully estate-grown Champagnes are released, Wainscott Main notes she has been working with “extremely limited Grand Cru bottlings sourced from top vineyards through her family’s long-standing grower relationships.” Her résumé—enology study in Beaune and stages at Louis Latour, G.D. Vajra, and Louis Roederer—signals a technically trained approach rather than a purely inherited house style.

There are, however, no professional tasting notes or scores available in the supplied material for the 2013 vintage; Vivino currently shows “Not enough ratings yet” for 2013. Vintage reporting from KL Wines describes 2013 in Champagne as defined by “a late, cool growing season” and “the latest harvest since 1988,” a profile that often translates into firm structure and freshness, especially for Pinot Noir from the Montagne de Reims.

Without critic reviews, this bottle’s appeal rests on its pedigree—Verzenay Grand Cru Pinot Noir and a high-attention, limited-production young domaine that multiple sources describe as on the rise.