Bottle of Champagne Marie Copinet Argilla Villonissa Champagne AOC Blanc Brut Nature NV Organic
France · Champagne

Argilla Villonissa NV

Champagne Marie Copinet

Champagne raised in eggs made from its own soil. Rare, and it tastes like it.

Open it when…

Aperitif Celebrate Date night

Tastes like

lemon pith · green apple · chalk · sea salt

Feels like

delicate, saline, quietly confident

CHF 69.00
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GrapesChardonnay
Serve8-10
DecantNo
DrinkNow-2030

Emeric's note

The bottle you open for someone who "knows Champagne"

Taste profile

The wine's soundboard.

Tall bars, big wine. Low bars, easy wine.

The story

Behind the bottle

Marie-Laure Copinet and her husband Alexandre Kowal run her family's estate in the south of the Côte de Sézanne, mostly Chardonnay on chalk, organic since 2018.

Argilla Villonissa is their rarest cuvée: Chardonnay from Villenauxe-la-Grande, fermented in clay eggs made from clay dug near the vines, with no dosage.

Champagne that tastes of the place it comes from, literally.

— Emeric

Where it comes from

Champagne Marie Copinet portrait

The maker

Champagne Marie Copinet

Founded
1975
Hectares
9
Generation
2
Farming
Organic (conversion from 2018)
Read their story →
Champagne map

The place

Champagne

France's northernmost major region, where grapes ripen on a knife-edge over deep beds of pure chalk. The bubbles come from a second fermentation in the bottle, then long ageing in cold chalk cellars. Beyond the big houses, a wave of grower-producers (récoltant-manipulant) now makes site-specific, often organic Champagne — exactly the kind of story worth telling. ~34,000 ha; ~300 million bottles a year.

Climate
Cool continental with oceanic influence; marginal ripening
Altitude
90-300 m
Classification
AOCs
SoilsBelemnite chalkMicraster chalkLimestoneMarlClay
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Best season to open it

Winter Oysters at the end of the year.
Spring A celebration with no reason.

SummerAutumn

Have it with

Oysters & seafood
Fish
Comté cheese

Press play

Minimal pianolet the bubbles talk.
  1. 01 Erik Satie – Gymnopédie No.1— pure and quiet
  2. 02 Ryuichi Sakamoto – Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence— delicate
  3. 03 Hania Rani – Eden— airy
Nerd mode 🔬 Soils, grapes, cellar, serving — for the truly curious

…I warned you. 😄

Terroir & craft

◆SoilsBelemnite chalk, Micraster chalk, Limestone, Marl, Clay
◆Altitude90-300 m
◆GrapesChardonnay
◆Blend100% Chardonnay (base 2019), Brut Nature
◆CellarChardonnay from Villenauxe-la-Grande
◆CellarNative fermentation in clay eggs made from local clay
◆CellarAged on lees, zero dosage
◆ÉlevageFermented and aged 1 year in 300 L clay eggs, zero dosage
🌿CertificationsOrganic

Serving

◆Serve at8-10
◆GlassTulip
◆DecantNo
◆DrinkNow-2030
Champagne Marie Copinet cellar

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