The Les Courtisols du Fût(ur) 2021 cuvée, made by Sacy Soeur et Frère, is a single-origin champagne from Verzy. The grapes come from a Grand Cru on the Grande Montagne de Reims.
This is a cuvée built around red fruit and citrus, with a hint of oak. The texture is vinous (it has real substance and body), carried by fresh, crunchy fruit.
This magnum is made for sharing: pour it as an aperitif with radishes and salted butter, say, then bring it back to the table alongside seared scallops. Only 200 bottles exist.
Le Terroir
The Les Courtisols du Fût(ur) 2021 cuvée is a Blanc de Noirs, meaning it is made solely from Pinot Noir.
The Pinot Noir comes from the terroir of Verzy, a village rated Grand Cru on the Grande Montagne de Reims, where Sacy Soeur et Frère farms its vines.
Verzy sits within the Montagne de Reims, in Champagne. Its Grand Cru status places it at the very top of the échelle des crus (the classification that ranks every Champagne village by the quality of its grapes). The whole cuvée comes from this one village and a single vintage: the wine speaks of one precise place, without the blending of several terroirs.
On this terroir, Pinot Noir gives the wine structure and depth.
La vinification
Jonathan Sacy, the grower at the helm of Sacy Soeur et Frère, chose to age this 2021 Pinot Noir in barrel. Contact with the oak brings oaky notes that weave into the fruit of the Pinot Noir.
Then comes the tirage (the bottling that triggers the second fermentation and creates the bubbles), carried out here under a cork stopper. The sediment that formed in the bottle was removed in September 2025.
This cuvée is a Brut Nature: with no dosage at all, so no sweet liqueur softens the wine. It keeps a straight, incisive character, as nothing cushions the wine's natural acidity, and it lets both the Pinot Noir and the oak speak without disguise.
Le millésime 2021
In Verzy, on the Grande Montagne de Reims, 2021 was a year of contrasts in Champagne. Thirteen days of frost between early April and early May cut the number of bunches. Yields were lower, but the bunches that remained gained in concentration. Marked heat in early June sped up the vine's growth. July then brought three times the usual rainfall, making 2021 one of the wettest years on record in Champagne. That water left the Pinot Noir with a natural liveliness before the harvest opened in mid-September. The vintage gave this cuvée a clean freshness and a straight, taut tension, a world away from a sun-soaked style.
