Olivier Horiot Coteaux Champenois Riceys Rouge En Val Bazot 2018 Author DK The mash bill (75% corn

The mash bill (75% corn

six months in tank

dusted with pepper and garrigue

a brut bottling that puts the village's chalk-grown Pinot front and center

and alpine

Olivier Horiot Coteaux Champenois Riceys Rouge En Val Bazot 2018 Author DK The mash bill (75% cornCoteaux 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