Vignon: the slopes of Verzenay
Vignon Père et Fils mainly produces champagne, but the owners, who come from a family of winegrowers, work on this Grand Cru terroir to produce a rare wine: coteaux champenois.
Made exclusively from black grapes, coteaux champenois are red wines produced in the region in very limited quantities. Most are used to make rosé blends, and only a few hectoliters are bottled, with or without vintage. Coteaux Champenois can be produced anywhere in Champagne, but Verzenay, along with Bouzy, Ambonnay and Vertus, are the most renowned.
Against all odds 2014
Here's a Pinot with a demonstrative, very juicy bouquet that immediately suggests intoxicating hints of stone, morello cherry and wild raspberry, enhanced by a refreshing hint of menthol. On the palate, fluid and digestible, it evokes crisp fruit, vigorously punctuated by the salivating freshness typical of great northern-latitude Pinots. 15/20
