Lieux-Dits Cote Faron RP05
⏳ Drinking Window
2012 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck, wild mushroom risotto, aged Comté cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
Jacques Selosse's 'Lieux-Dits Côte Faron' is a masterclass in terroir-driven Champagne, originating from a single, steeply sloped, south-facing parcel in the legendary Grand Cru village of Aÿ. Unlike the estate's famous Chardonnay-focused cuvées, Côte Faron is a Blanc de Noirs crafted entirely from Pinot Noir. Anselme Selosse introduced his lieu-dit series to highlight the distinct personalities of specific villages, employing a solera-style fractional blending system that dates back to 1994 for this parcel. The 'RP' in the designation stands for 'Région Pinot', with the accompanying number indicating the base vintage. Fermented in oak casks with indigenous yeasts and minimal intervention, this wine offers an incredibly vinous, powerful, and oxidative profile, capturing the intense warmth, structure, and mineral depth of Aÿ's chalky soils.
🍾 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
Pinot Noir