CHAMPAGNE COSE CHOUILLY
Champagne Cose is charting a path not many in Champagne would attempt. They own no land, no grand winery and no chalk cellars. What they do have is connections and friends that are willing to assist in making their dreams of becoming vignerons come true. Each year Victor and Gil buy tiny amounts of grapes from the best plots they can find all around Champagne. They find growers that follow their philosophy of farming the land in accordance to nature mixed with their low intervention winemaking to craft a single vineyard wine. Each year different, each wine totally unique. Their signature is that they have not one style but many. They are charting a new way, the way of the Micro-Negociant.
The term 'negociant' in Champagne has become a term used to differentiate small growers from larger and oftentimes less quality oriented big houses. This false dichotomy has been used as a weapon to vilify anyone who had the audacity to buy grapes rather than grow their own. Victor Allier and Gil Conjeo are proving all of that wrong. Together they are showing us that there is not just one path to create top champagnes. Victor is owner and proprietor restaurants in Reims and Epernay (including one of our favorites, Sacre Burger) and Gil has been working with Champagne Geoffroy for many years. This 'side project' is a full time passion that has resulted in one of the most sought after bottles in recent memory.
Each year they will release three single vineyard wines from different growers and villages. They will feature one of the three main grapes individually. Their first release of 2022 is Bryan Marx's Meunier from Venteuil, Roland Champion's Chardonnay from Chouilly and Pinot Noir from Domaine de Bichery in the Aube. Less than 1,000 bottles of each cuvee was created
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