Millesime
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted turbot, pan-seared sweetbreads, aged Comté cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
Jacques Selosse's Millésime is a monumental expression of vintage Champagne, crafted only in exceptional years. Unlike conventional houses that strive for a consistent house style, Anselme Selosse embraces the natural variations of each growing season, treating the Millésime as a unique historical document of the year. Sourced from two prized Grand Cru Chardonnay parcels in Avize—Les Chantereines and Les Maronniers—the wine is fermented in oak barrels using indigenous yeasts and aged on its fine lees for nearly a decade before disgorgement. This meticulous, low-intervention approach yields a Champagne of breathtaking complexity, characterized by its deep golden hue, oxidative complexity, vibrant minerality, and a vinous structure that challenges the traditional boundaries of sparkling wine.
🍾 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