Coessens Champagne Blanc de Noirs Brut Largillier 2020 Reasonable Cellar A historic debut: Domaine Michel

A historic debut: Domaine Michel Gros now controls a parcel in the legendary Richebourg Grand Cru

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This small but superb Western Highland distillery was founded in 1794

Coessens Champagne Blanc de Noirs Brut Largillier 2020 Reasonable Cellar A historic debut: Domaine MichelJerome 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