Jacques Lassaigne Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut Nature Clos Sainte Sophie 2019 NO20230614 from the press all the

from the press all the way through disgorgement

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

savory wine—the sort of Cabernet that can only be made on the Sonoma Coast

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

from a family operation in Beersel tracing back to 1883

Jacques Lassaigne Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut Nature Clos Sainte Sophie 2019 NO20230614 from the press all theA 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