Olivier Horiot Coteaux Champenois Riceys Rouge En Val Bazot 2018 070226CHILL You have thinner soils with

You have thinner soils with rocky outposts

Les Premices comes from the family's newest vineyard -- taken over in 2016 from the maternal side of the family

The first impression on the nose is marked by great intensity

but pulled taut by all that mineral energy

500 liters delivers

Olivier Horiot Coteaux Champenois Riceys Rouge En Val Bazot 2018 070226CHILL You have thinner soils withCoteaux Champenois is the still red of Champagne, and few growers take it as seriously as Olivier Horiot. En Val Bazot is one of Les Riceys' most respected lieux dits, a clay and limestone site over Kimmeridgian bedrock that gives Pinot Noir real structure. Harvested by hand, fermented spontaneously, and aged eighteen months in oak, the 2018 lands somewhere between a savory Cote de Nuits and the leaner Pinots of the Aube. It's a quiet wine, but a