Olivier Horiot Coteaux Champenois Riceys Rouge En Val Bazot 2018 Author DK six months in tank

six months in tank

and alpine

Thai is flamboyantly beautiful and deep

dusted with pepper and garrigue

Rather than leaning on any single vineyard

Olivier Horiot Coteaux Champenois Riceys Rouge En Val Bazot 2018 Author DK six months in tankCoteaux 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