Blanc de Blancs Brut
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2032
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted turbot, creamy mushroom risotto, aged Comté cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
Jacques Selosse's Blanc de Blancs Brut represents a paradigm shift in the history of Champagne. Sourced from the legendary chalk soils of Côte des Blancs Grand Crus—primarily Avize, Cramant, and Oger—this cuvée is a testament to Anselme Selosse's revolutionary vision. Returning to the estate in 1974 after studying in Burgundy, Anselme rejected industrial methods, pioneering organic viticulture, exceptionally low yields, and wood fermentation. Rather than striving for a uniform house style, this Blanc de Blancs embraces vintage variation and terroir specificity. Aged in oak casks with active battonage and bottled with minimal dosage, it delivers a deeply vinous, oxidative, and intensely mineral-driven profile. It is a historic wine that single-handedly ignited the grower Champagne movement, offering a profound, structured expression of pure Chardonnay.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded in the 1950s by Jacques Selosse and propelled to legendary status by his visionary son Anselme Selosse, Domaine Jacques Selosse is based in the Grand Cru village of Avize in the heart of Champagne's Côte des Blancs. Anselme took over the estate in 1980 after studying in Burgundy, fundamentally revolutionizing the grower Champagne movement through meticulous, non-interventionist viticulture, minimal yields, and native yeast fermentations in oak barrels. Renowned for a singular, vinous, and lightly oxidative style, the house crafts profoundly complex cuvées, including the solera-aged Substance, the precise Initial and Version Originale, and an acclaimed collection of single-parcel Lieux-dits. Today, along with Anselme's son Guillaume, the domaine continues to set the benchmark for terroir-focused, artisanal Champagne with unrivaled depth and expressive minerality.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Chardonnay 100%
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
12% - 12.5%