Luke Skywalker — NV Egly-Ouriet Vignes de Vrigny Premier Cru

We end our tasting with the spark that starts the revolution. If the entire Pinot Galaxy were a saga, this Champagne represents Luke on Tatooine: shimmering with an untapped, electric energy that is only just beginning to manifest. It is a soaring, luminous finale that brings balance to the entire flight.

Luke’s journey is fundamentally about transcendence and transformation—and in the hands of a master grower, Champagne is Pinot Noir and Meunier transformed into something almost mythic. Egly-Ouriet, in particular, carries extraordinary, soulful depth beneath its high-voltage energy. The wine combines sheer power, surgical precision, and a distinct, almost spiritual lift. It begins grounded and intensely vinous, but quickly rises into something luminous, expansive, and enduring.

The Vignes de Vrigny is a singular expression: it is 100% Pinot Meunier from old vines. It remains one of the only wines in existence that treats Meunier as the protagonist rather than the supporting blending component. It is the underdog rising to take its place among the greats.

Luke’s evolution from a naïve farm boy to a fully realized Jedi follows a similar arc to the experience of drinking this bottle. Great grower Champagne unfolds in the glass: beginning with focused fruit and structure, then unfurling into layers of complexity, persistence, and genuine radiance.

There is a striking symmetry here with the start of our journey. Both our opening pour and this finale are sparkling wines, but the movement from a scrappy, anarchic pét-nat to this profound, contemplative grower Champagne mirrors the saga’s own trajectory from a local adventure to a mythic resolution.

If the opening act was Pinot at its most rebellious, the Egly-Ouriet Vignes de Vrigny is Pinot fully becoming one with the Force.

MAY THE TERROIR BE WITH YOU