NV Champagne Tarlant 'Zero' Rose Brut, Champagne, France

"In 1687, Pierre Tarlant began cultivating his first vineyards in Aisne. The family stayed put for almost 100 years before moving to the village of Oeuilly in 1780. At the turn of the 20th century, Louis Tarlant took over as head winemaker. His tenure would prove instrumental to shaping the family legacy, principally due to his involvement as mayor of Oeuilly in the rarely discussed Champagne Revolution, a tumultuous movement (yeah, go look that up!). As a result, Louis helped achieve worldwide recognition of the AOC Champagne, also making Tarlant one of the first independent estates in the region. Today, head winemaker Benoît Tarlant is the 12th generation working the land under his family name. Benoît is the real deal: his great understanding and respect of history, tradition and nature, coupled with his experimental, forward thinking tendencies have been the driving force of some truly next level. With his sister Mélanie joining the family business in 2003, things are more than eve