Exquise
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2030
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
foie gras, pear tart, blue cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
Jacques Selosse's 'Exquise' is a rare masterclass in the historical and often misunderstood Demi-Sec style. While modern trends lean heavily toward bone-dry Champagnes, Anselme Selosse created Exquise to honor the rich, sweeter profiles preferred during the Belle Époque. Sourced from the prestigious Grand Cru chalk soils of Avize and Oger in the Côte des Blancs, this exceptional Blanc de Blancs is crafted using Selosse's signature Burgundian methods, including fermentation in oak casks and wild yeasts. The higher dosage is masterfully balanced by the intense, natural acidity and deep minerality of the old-vine Chardonnay, resulting in a wine of incredible texture, complexity, and tension rather than simple sweetness.
🍾 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%