Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
roasted poultry, creamy mushroom risotto, aged hard cheeses
✨ Technical Specifications
Jacques Selosse's Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut represents a paradigm shift in Champagne winemaking, pioneered by the legendary Anselme Selosse. Sourced from the chalky Grand Cru slopes of the Côte des Blancs—primarily Avize, Cramant, and Oger—this cuvée is a masterclass in terroir-driven, oxidative vinification. Unlike conventional Champagnes, Selosse utilizes indigenous yeasts, ferments and ages the base wines in oak casks (a nod to Burgundian traditions), and maintains an exceptionally low dosage. This approach coaxes an unmatched depth, vinous texture, and intense minerality from the Chardonnay grapes. The wine is celebrated for its complex layers of bruised apple, toasted brioche, and wet stone, embodying Anselme's philosophy that Champagne is first and foremost a fine wine defined by its soil rather than its bubbles.
🍾 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
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
12-12.5%