Coessens Champagne Blanc de Noirs Brut Largillier 2020 NO20230712 Selection of the first press

Selection of the first press of Pinot Meunier (22%)

The sunshine-soaked fruit was destemmed and co-fermented for 18 days on the skins

After modernizing with roller mills in the 1980s

and absolutely nowhere to hide

this is a grower Champagne that overdelivers every single time

Coessens Champagne Blanc de Noirs Brut Largillier 2020 NO20230712 Selection of the first pressJerome 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