Papegaai, Red, 2025 msk_champagne_pre-sale_2023 or simply enjoyed contemplatively on

or simply enjoyed contemplatively on its own

Pierre Paillard makes the kind of Champagne you open and immediately feel smarter for having bought

extracting phenolics and color while maintaining Chenin's signature acidity

almost flinty intensity distinct from Frohlich's slate-grown cuvees

Papegaai, Red, 2025 msk_champagne_pre-sale_2023 or simply enjoyed contemplatively onPapegaai is Dutch for parrot specifically the Cape parrot, South Africa's endangered native, to whom this bottle is dedicated. It's the gloriously casual table wine from Adi Badenhorst, one of the Swartland's most celebrated naturally minded producers, working out of his Kalmoesfontein farm on the granite slopes of the Paardeberg. The recipe: a fresh, light bodied red built from low yielding old bush vines on the farm plus some top tier fruit borrowed