Jacques Lassaigne Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut Nature Clos Sainte Sophie 2019 NO20230614 fermented cool in stainless steel

fermented cool in stainless steel and held on fine lees for texture

from a family operation in Beersel tracing back to 1883

It's a rich

and Cramant

patiently aging for a minimum of seven years to extract the notes of vanilla trapped within the charred oak

Jacques Lassaigne Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut Nature Clos Sainte Sophie 2019 NO20230614 fermented cool in stainless steelA walled clos in Champagne is rare enough; this one is the only one in the Aube, cut into the chalk hill of Montgueux outside Troyes. Emmanuel Lassaigne farms the roughly two acre Clos Sainte Sophie a parcel the Valton family held for about a century, and whose fruit Charles Heidsieck once bought for its top blends and bottles it on its own as a vintage dated Blanc de Blancs from vines past 40 years old. It ferments in used barrels, Cognac casks among