Coessens Champagne Blanc de Noirs Brut Largillier 2020 tag a complex spice with intriguing

a complex spice with intriguing peppery notes

no blockbuster ambition

Nearly a decade in bottle

Increasing hard to find

Coessens Champagne Blanc de Noirs Brut Largillier 2020 tag a complex spice with intriguingJerome Coessens takes grower Champagne to its logical extreme: one vineyard, one grape, one vintage, one man doing everything himself. He owns all of Largillier, a monopole in the Aube, where he farms Pinot Noir on limestone that runs the same seam as Chablis. The result is Champagne with the muscle and fruit density of grand cru Burgundy, wrapped around a vibrating, salty minerality. Some of these grapes get sold off to Guillaume Selosse, whose