Substance Blanc de Blancs
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
roasted poultry, creamy mushroom risotto, aged hard cheeses
✨ Technical Specifications
Jacques Selosse's 'Substance' is a monumental achievement in Champagne, representing a radical departure from traditional blending. Created by the visionary Anselme Selosse, this Blanc de Blancs is crafted using a solera system, or perpetual reserve, initiated in 1986. Sourced from two prime Grand Cru parcels in Avize—Les Chantereines and Les Marans—the wine is designed to transcend individual vintage characteristics in pursuit of the ultimate expression of Avize's chalky terroir. The young wine of the current vintage is introduced into oak barrels containing the wines of previous years, dating back to the solera's inception. This painstaking process yields an incredibly complex, oxidative masterpiece defined by notes of dried fruits, toasted nuts, sea salt, and a profound, mineral-driven finish that challenges the very definition 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
Chardonnay
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
12.5%