Lieux-Dits Sous le Mont NV
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck, creamy mushroom risotto, aged Comté cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
Jacques Selosse's Lieux-Dits 'Sous le Mont' is a masterclass in terroir-driven Champagne, originating from a single, steeply sloped parcel in the historic Premier Cru village of Mareuil-sur-Aÿ. Celebrated for its unique terroir, this east-facing vineyard features chalky soils heavily influenced by magnesium, which imparts a distinctive, slightly savory, and subtly bitter mineral edge to the wine. Anselme Selosse, a pioneer who revolutionized Champagne by treating it first and foremost as a still wine of place, crafts this cuvée using a perpetual reserve (solera) system. This method blends multiple vintages to capture the eternal spirit of the vineyard rather than the variation of a single harvest. Fermented in oak casks with indigenous yeasts and bottled with little to no dosage, 'Sous le Mont' is a highly individualistic, vinous, and oxidative Blanc de Noirs that challenges and redefines the traditional boundaries of Champagne.
🍾 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