Last December's (2021) Saveur magazine list of their best champagnes for 2022 called Bertrand-Delespierre L'Enfant de la Montagne the "Best Cool Crowd Pleaser." Cool crowd or not, it is a pleaser with whole rounded fruit, bright acidity, and excellent balance and poise.

In 1980 Didier Bertrand and Chantal Delespierre married and combined their holdings in the 1er cru villages of Chamery, Villedommange, Ecueil, and Montbré. Their adult children, Clémence and Adrien, have become the sixth generation of the two families to work in the vineyards. They have Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier, and Chardonnay. The vines average more than 25 years in age, though some parcels are well over 50 years old.
They use no herbicides or pesticides and encourage biodiversity throughout their vineyards. They always use native yeast and usually ferment in neutral 600-liter demi-muids. After very long, slow aging in their cellar, some reserve wines undergo natural malolactic fermentation, and those wines are blended judiciously in some cuvées.
Their best Chardonnay and Pinot Noir get more barrels and time on the lees and form the Origines Croissees. The 2012 was sumptuous.
Both wines are Extra Brut from premier cru villages. Neither has any taste of austerity.

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