Lieux-Dits Chemin de Chalons
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted turbot, creamy mushroom risotto, aged Comté cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
The Chemin de Châlons lieu-dit is a legendary micro-parcel located in the Grand Cru village of Cramant, within the Côte des Blancs. This south-facing slope benefits from generous sunlight combined with the classic, deep-lying Campanian chalk of the region. Under Anselme Selosse's radical vision, this single-vineyard bottling became a masterclass in terroir expression. Eschewing traditional Champagne blending, Selosse utilizes a perpetual reserve system to capture the historical memory of the vineyard. Fermented in oak casks with indigenous yeasts and bottled with minimal dosage, Chemin de Châlons is celebrated for its vinous, oxidative complexity, boasting notes of bruised apple, toasted brioche, and a profound, saline minerality that speaks directly of its chalky origins.
🍾 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%