2020 Jacques Lassaigne Clos Sainte-Sophie Rosé de Saignée Brut Nature Champagne Piedmont These wines are hauntingly pure

These wines are hauntingly pure and precise

and other indigenous varieties (white and red) co-planted

Vinified partially with whole clusters in cement and aged in small neutral oak barrels

a process customarily reserved for Gamay in Beaujolais

2020 Jacques Lassaigne Clos Sainte-Sophie Rosé de Saignée Brut Nature Champagne Piedmont These wines are hauntingly pureJacques Lassaigne is a name I regularly reach for in Champagne. Crystalline may be an overused word, but it sums up how these brilliant bubbles differ from even the best addresses in the Cte des Bars. The thread of chalk running through Montgueux gives these cuves a thrilling combination of purity and tension.