Style

A terroir-driven and refined Champagne, combining purity, texture, freshness, and mineral precision. Elegant and expressive, with a low-intervention character.

Vineyard

Sourced from selected parcels in Trigny, in the Montagne de Reims, with 80% Pinot Noir and 20% Chardonnay grown on clay and sandy soils.

Winery

Fermented with indigenous yeasts and aged for 12 months in 2.2 hL French oak barrels. No fining or filtration. Hand-bottled, riddled, and disgorged.

Production

2019 vintage, 930 bottles produced. Disgorged December 2023. Extra Brut, 5 g/L dosage.

Nose / Palate

Ripe citrus, orchard fruit, brioche, and subtle oak notes. Structured yet vibrant, with fresh acidity, fine minerality, textured mouthfeel, and a long, elegant finish.

Trigny is one of the key villages of the Massif de Saint-Thierry, located north-west of Reims. Its vineyards lie on gently sloping terrain with sandy, clay-rich and well-drained soils, creating particularly favourable conditions for Pinot Noir and Meunier.

The history of Trigny is closely connected to the Abbey of Saint-Thierry. The land was donated to the abbey in the 9th century, and the village’s name appears definitively in a charter of 963. Viticulture in the wider Massif has an even longer history, with vineyards documented from the Middle Ages and wines exported from the region as early as the 12th century.

Today, Trigny covers around 190 hectares of vines, with Meunier representing almost half of the plantings, followed by Pinot Noir and a smaller proportion of Chardonnay. This high proportion of black grapes gives the village a naturally vinous, fruity and structured identity.

Trigny Pinot Noir tends to show red and dark berries, subtle spice and savoury depth, while Meunier brings softer fruit, floral notes and generosity. Chardonnay, although less widely planted, can show fresh citrus, delicate floral aromas and a saline finish.

The village suffered greatly from phylloxera, the First World War and the economic crises of the early 20th century. Its vineyard was gradually rebuilt after the Second World War, with the Trigny cooperative established in the early 1950s, marking an important stage in the revival of local wine culture.

Trigny is therefore a distinctive Champagne terroir shaped by sand, clay, black grapes and freshness, producing Champagnes with an individual, elegant and distinctly vinous personality.

2019 was an excellent vintage for Trigny, and particularly interesting because the Massif de Saint-Thierry has a distinctive mix of Pinot Noir, Meunier and Chardonnay on sandy and clay-limestone soils. The warm, dry season produced ripe, concentrated fruit, while cool nights towards the end of ripening helped preserve acidity.For Pinot Noir, 2019 was especially successful. The variety reached excellent phenolic maturity and developed deep red-fruit character, concentration and structure, while retaining freshness. The warm vintage gives Trigny Pinot Noir more body and intensity than a cooler year, but the lighter soils of Saint-Thierry keep the style relatively elegant rather than heavy.Chardonnay is also very interesting in Trigny, although it represents a much smaller proportion of the local vineyard. The 2019 season allowed Chardonnay to achieve excellent aromatic and phenolic maturity, resulting in wines with ripe citrus, orchard fruit, floral notes and good concentration, balanced by the acidity retained during the cool nights at the end of the season.