Famille Mousse, Champagne Les Vignes de Mon Village Longue Garde Blanc de Noirs Brut Nature, NV NET Drinking beautifully right now

Drinking beautifully right now

The block is planted at unusually wide spacing (just 605 vines per acre) to old-school selections of Pommard

and the result is a white of uncommon depth and layered power that still reads as bright and nuanced rather than heavy

which is Biondi's way of building texture without leaving overt oak

Famille Mousse, Champagne Les Vignes de Mon Village Longue Garde Blanc de Noirs Brut Nature, NV NET Drinking beautifully right nowEight years on the lees, no dosage, and nothing in the bottle but old vine Meunier from Cuisles. Longue Garde is how Cedric Mousse shows what his flagship becomes with time: the same forty year old vines on green clay, sand and limestone that go into the standard Les Vignes de Mon Village, but drawn from the 2014 and 2015 harvests and left undisturbed on their lees for roughly ninety six months before disgorgement. Fermentation and aging happen in