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The Méthode Champenoise Is A Chaptalization

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The Méthode Champenoise Is A Chaptalization

Emmanuel Lassaigne on the champagne method - and the limits of natural wine discourse in Champagne.

Aaron Ayscough
Feb 14, 2022
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Emmanuel Lassaigne in his cellar, October 2019. Photo: Jade Ambre.

I go back a ways with Montgueux virtuoso Emmanuel Lassaigne, whose incisive, undosed champagnes I discovered shortly after moving to Paris in 2009. In the early 2010s, seeking to improve the champagne on offer at the fashion shows of the company I worked for at the time, I contacted him.…

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