Coessens Champagne Blanc de Noirs Brut Largillier 2020 tag Increasing hard to find

Increasing hard to find

slightly saline minerality for a complex

Carneros is Napa’s coolest growing region

angelica and grapefruit

To eat or not to eat: that is the question

Coessens Champagne Blanc de Noirs Brut Largillier 2020 tag Increasing hard to findJerome 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