Boizel Tours-sur-Marne 2020 Blanc de Noirs Grand Cru

Boizel Tours-sur-Marne 2020 Blanc de Noirs Grand Cru is one of the clearest examples of the house moving away from broad regional blending and towards an exact place, grape and vintage. This release is 100% Pinot Noir from Tours-sur-Marne Grand Cru, drawn from the 2020 harvest, with five years on lees and a dosage of 3.5 g/L. That makes the bottle particularly useful for understanding the more site-specific side of Boizel. Brut Réserve is the house’s broad introduction, built around the blending model that has long defined Champagne. Tours-sur-Marne 2020 takes the opposite approach: one cru, one grape variety and one vintage become the subject of the wine. The house itself was founded in Épernay in 1834 and remains family-led. Boizel owns around seven hectares of vineyard, including holdings in Avize and Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, while long-standing grower relationships extend its reach across Grand and Premier Cru sites in the Côte des Blancs and Montagne de Reims. That wider sourcing network allows the range to move convincingly between blended cuvées and more narrowly defined origins. Within that structure, Tours-sur-Marne 2020 is the Pinot Noir counterpart to Avize 2020, which gives buyers a straightforward way to compare two different Grand Cru perspectives within the same house. The distinction is meaningful: this is not simply a premium tier above Brut Réserve, but a different way of reading Boizel through exact origin. For buyers, the appeal is direct. Choose this bottle if you want a vintage-specific Blanc de Noirs with a clearly stated technical profile and a precise Grand Cru identity. The five years on lees and 3.5 g/L dosage belong to this documented release and should be kept attached to the 2020 bottle rather than assumed for another vintage. It is therefore best bought as what it is: Boizel’s 2020 Tours-sur-Marne statement, made entirely from Pinot Noir and defined by both place and year.