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Pierre Paillard, Coteaux Champenois Bouzy Rouge "Les Mignottes", 2022

Red Wine from Champagne, France
by Pierre Paillard
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A still red wine from Champagne, made in a Grand Cru village that has long been as famous for red as for bubbles. Bouzy sits on the southern flank of the Montagne de Reims, and the Paillard family has farmed there since 1768; brothers Antoine and Quentin, the eighth generation, have taken the estate to full organic certification. Les Mignottes is a lieu-dit on the midslope where the soil turns clay-rich, warmer and deeper than the pure chalk above it, which is exactly what still Pinot Noir needs to ripen this far north; the vines went in in 1979. It is fermented with a third whole clusters on ambient yeasts, aged twelve months in 350-liter barrels of which only a tenth are new, and bottled unfined and unfiltered. 2022 was a hot, generous year in Champagne, which for Coteaux Champenois means genuine ripeness instead of the lean, hard-won style of colder vintages. Serve it with a light chill, the way you would treat a good village Burgundy.

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Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Pinot Noir

  • Vintage

    2022

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Organic

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Light Bodied

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Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Roast duck, mushroom tart, coq au vin, a charcuterie board, or a washed-rind cheese like Chaource. It has the acidity for tomato-rich pastas and the frame for a rare steak.

Tasting Profile

Medium-bodied and dry, with sour cherry, raspberry, rose petal, cocoa and a savory, earthy undertow. Bright acidity, fine-grained light tannins, and a chalky mineral finish.

Bouzy is probably the best village name in all of winedom. And when we talk about it we get to say thing like, "Pierre Paillard is a true Bouzy specialist." What could be better than that? Well, fortunately, the wines!

We've featured lots of great Blanc de Blancs Champagnes from the Côte des Blancs, but fewer of Champagnes great Pinot Noir terroirs, like the stunning villages of Ambonnay and Bouzy, which are a mere 700 yards apart on the same slope. Ambonnay is probably the more famous, thanks to Krug's Clos d'Ambonnay. But the Pinot Noir grown in Bouzy is so magical and pure that it's one of the few parts of Champagne that is almost as famous for its still red wine as for its bubbles.

As we said, Pierre Paillard is one of the few true Bouzy specialists. He has about 11 hectares there, mostly Pinot Noir. He farms organically and takes a very classic approach in the winery with the principal aim of promoting freshness: low temperature fermentations, steel tanks, and very low dosage.

The wines therefore have good snap, but with more Pinot than Chardonnay they aren't the taut, chalky things you find further south. Instead, you get sensuousness—even lustiness!—and that mysterious earthy flavor that even hard-core Burgundy fans just can't quite put a finger on.

Paillard is patient and he takes his time aging and releasing his wine. Even the basic "Brut" is made from grapes picked 5+ years ago.