Jacques Lassaigne Champagne Brut Nature Millesime 2017 SHELF what's in the bottle is

what's in the bottle is effectively a Ponsot Griotte — same hands

Bruno Borie's house style of refinement and length shows beautifully here

and a touch of Grenache grown over mixed clay

98 points on Wine Enthusiast

Winemaking techniques that bridge old-world and new-world philosophies

Jacques Lassaigne Champagne Brut Nature Millesime 2017 SHELF what's in the bottle isEmmanuel Lassaigne bottles a vintage cuve every single year, on the logic that the whole point of a vintage wine is to show you what that year actually did. The 2017 is all Chardonnay from two or three of his best Montgueux parcels thin clay topsoil over Cretaceous chalk, vines past 40 years old fermented in stainless steel and then left roughly eight years on the lees before hand disgorgement with no dosage at all. Montgueux is the isolated hill west