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house style, Anselme Selosse embraces the natural variations of each growing season, treating the Millésime as a unique historical document of the year.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 1949 by Jacques Selosse in the Grand Cru village of Avize, Domaine Jacques Selosse emerged as the spiritual vanguard of the grower Champagne revolution under the leadership of Jacques’ son Anselme, who took control in 1980, and grandson Guillaume. Spanning roughly 7.5 to 8 hectares across prime terroirs in Avize, Cramant, Oger, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, Aÿ, Ambonnay, and Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, the estate champions low yields and chemical-free viticulture rooted in organic and biodynamic principles aligned with lunar cycles. Selosse redefined Champagne vinification by applying Burgundian techniques, fermenting base wines with indigenous yeasts in oak barrels, extending lees contact, and embracing intentional oxidative maturation with minimal dosage. Renowned for its singular solera-aged Blanc de Blancs 'Substance' and parcel-specific Lieux-Dits collection (including Les Carelles and Sous le Mont), the domaine crafts vinosity and textural authority that capture pure, uncompromising chalk-driven minerality.
🍇 Grapes
Chardonnay