Bottle of Champagne Marie Copinet Argilla Villonissa Coteaux Champenois AOC Blanc NV Organic
France · Champagne · Coteaux Champenois

Argilla Villonissa NV

Champagne Marie Copinet

The same wine as the Champagne, just without the bubbles. A collector's curiosity.

Open it when…

Long dinner Solo Date night

Tastes like

lemon · chalk · white flowers

Feels like

still Champagne: tense, pure, rare

CHF 59.00
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CHF 78.67/L
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GrapesChardonnay
Serve10-12
DecantNo
DrinkNow-2030

Emeric's note

A tasting with friends who love a story

Taste profile

The wine's soundboard.

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

The story

Behind the bottle

Marie-Laure Copinet and Alexandre Kowal farm organically in the south of the Côte de Sézanne. Coteaux Champenois is the still wine of Champagne, and very few growers make it.

Marie bottles this one straight from the clay egg, before it would have become Champagne.

Taste it next to the sparkling Argilla Villonissa and you'll see exactly what the bubbles change.

— 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 →
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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

Spring With fish and spring vegetables.
Summer Lightly chilled, in the shade.

AutumnWinter

Have it with

Fish
Seafood
Chicken

Press play

Contemporary classicalheadphones on.
  1. 01 Max Richter – On the Nature of Daylight— still and deep
  2. 02 Arvo Pärt – Spiegel im Spiegel— pure
  3. 03 Nils Frahm – Ambre— calm
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), still wine
◆CellarChardonnay from Villenauxe-la-Grande
◆CellarNative fermentation in clay eggs
◆CellarBottled still, straight from the egg
◆ÉlevageFermented and aged in 300 L clay eggs
🌿CertificationsOrganic

Serving

◆Serve at10-12
◆GlassBourgogne
◆DecantNo
◆DrinkNow-2030
Champagne Marie Copinet cellar

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