Angéline Templier-Lassalle

Coming Up

Cellar time is the work here: non-vintage Champagne is held for four years, vintage cuvées for six to ten, and every bottle is still hand-disgorged. At Champagne J. Lassalle in Chigny-les-Roses, France, since 2006, Angéline Templier-Lassalle has worked inside that discipline, where patience is not a slogan but a production method. Her own line is plain and exact: “Time is our ally, patience our secret.”

Where They Are Now

Since 2006, the winemaking at Champagne J. Lassalle has been guided by Angéline Templier-Lassalle through a cellar program built around long aging and manual disgorgement. The house style is described as deep, long-aged, and rich, and that character comes from process rather than haste: four years for non-vintage Champagne, six to ten years for vintage cuvées. In that setup, time does practical work, shaping texture and weight before release. The named cuvées—CUVEE ROSE BRUT 1ER CRU, CUVEE ANGELINE BRUT 1ER CRU, CUVEE BLANC DE BLANCS BRUT 1ER CRU, and CUVEE PREFERENCE BRUT 1ER CRU—sit within the same method. Long cellar aging, hand-disgorgement, and a Champagne house tradition run by women in Chigny-les-Roses define the framework. The wines are measured and composed because the work behind them is measured and composed. CUVEE ANGELINE BRUT 1ER CRU 2011 makes the house’s logic explicit. Named for Angéline Templier-Lassalle, it is a special cuvée released only in great years and aged for 10 years. The bottling is built on selection and delay: only the best years earn that wait.

Signature

Angéline's signature wines include CUVEE ANGELINE BRUT 1ER CRU, CUVEE ROSE BRUT 1ER CRU, CUVEE PREFERENCE BRUT 1ER CRU, and Angéline.

In Their Words “But today, the tasks are interchangeable. Nothing is compartmentalized and we work together to continue what my grandfather began seventy years ago.”

Honors

CUVEE ANGELINE BRUT 1ER CRU 2011 is the named honor attached directly to Templier-Lassalle. It is a special cuvée bearing her name, released only in great years, with a decade of aging before it reaches the table. That honor fits the house’s measured style.