Strip Champagne down to its basics: Take out the glitzy marketing, the additives, and the pesticides, and make the farmer the producer—that’s grower Champagne. “Farmers’ fizz,” as it’s been called, is Champagne that’s made by the farmers who use their own grapes to make it.
“I would only drink grower Champagne,” said sommelier Doreen Winkler. “It’s an honest product; it’s delicious; it’s headache-free.” Winkler, of Diamond Sommelier Services, consults for Urban Uncorked in Brooklyn, where the wine selection consists of 80 percent natural wines.
