In the glass
Aroma: dried apricot, walnut, curry spice, honey, smoke
Palate: intense oxidative depth, vinous power, saline length, complex finish
A solera-based Avize Blanc de Blancs of extraordinary intensity: dried apricot, walnut and curry spice over honey and smoke, with oxidative depth, vinous power and saline length.
What it pairs with
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Aged Comte and Beaufort
Oxidative walnut depth meets aged mountain cheese. -
Roast Bresse chicken
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Curry spice and honey echo roasted poultry. -
Lobster thermidor
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Vinous power and saline length frame rich shellfish.
History
Substance is built on a solera Anselme Selosse began in 1986, blending decades of Avize Chardonnay in a perpetually refreshed barrel system for a deeply oxidative, vinous Champagne.
- 1986 — Selosse starts the solera that underpins Substance
Facts
- Producer
- Domaine Jacques Selosse
- Grapes
- Chardonnay (100%)
- Classification
- AOC Champagne
- Oak
- Solera begun in 1986; oak-barrel fermentation; oxidative, low-intervention
- ABV
- 12.5%
- Price
- EUR 600 to 1000 at retail
- Drinking window
- now to 20 from release
- First vintage
- 1986
Scores
- Vinous 95