Champagne Coessens Largillier Blanc de Noirs
Champagne Coessens Largillier Blanc de Noirs
A wine with huge personality, with fresh, plush berries balanced with complex layers of minerality
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Champagne Largillier Blanc de Noirs 2019 Coessens 100% Pinot Noir from two parcels called Fruit and Fleur located in the monopoly of the family, separately vinified and later assembled. Fruity and intense particularly mineral and refreshing.
* Varietals: 100% Pinot Noir
* Vintages: 100% vintage 2019; harvested in September 2019
* Date of bottling: July 2020
* Age of vines: 37 - 42 years
* Type of vinification: Temperature-controlled stainless steel ; ageing on lees
* Malolactic fermentation: Yes
* Ageing on lees: 28 months
* Disgorgement date: November 2022
* Dosage: 6 gr/L
* Number of bottles produced: 10,000
* In Largillier vineyard : For this wine the grapes come from two plots of Largillier: FRUIT and FLOWER
The Producer
érôme and Valerie Coessens have been working since 2006 on a single vineyard named Largillier - a six hectare lieu-dit owned exclusively by the Coessens family for 5 generations. Located in Ville-sur-Arce, in southern Aube in the Côte des Bars, the chalk-clay soil in the plot is characteristically poor, but full of kimmeridge, like in the Grand Cru areas in Chablis. Upon taking over the family estate, Jérôme noticed different profiles within the plot, and subsequently subdivided the vineyard with ‘Mineral’, ‘Fruit’, ‘Flower’ and ‘Substance’ subplots. Part of the vineyard is also allocated to fellow winemaker Guillaume Selosse, who uses the grapes for his ‘Largillier’ champagne. The vineyard is planted with only Pinot Noir, and the grapes are harvested at different times for eight different cuvées, each expressing a unique nuance. The wines are vinified with a Burgundian sensibility, with single varietal, single vintage (except for the solera), for the wines to showcase purely the multi-facets of the terroir of Largillier.