In the glass
Aroma: ripe orchard fruit, toasted hazelnut, honey, chalk
Palate: vinous oxidative richness, saline minerality, depth, long finish
Selosse's extra-brut Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs: ripe orchard fruit and toasted hazelnut over honey and chalk, with vinous oxidative richness and saline mineral depth.
What it pairs with
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Aged Comte
Hazelnut and oxidative depth meet the cheese's crystals. -
Roast chicken with morels
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Honey and depth echo roast and mushroom. -
Grilled turbot
Saline minerality frames fine white fish.
History
Version Originale (V.O.) is Selosse's extra-brut Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs, a solera-style multi-vintage replacing the former lower-dosage bottlings.
- 2009 — V.O. label established for the extra-brut Blanc de Blancs
Facts
- Producer
- Domaine Jacques Selosse
- Grapes
- Chardonnay (100%)
- Classification
- AOC Champagne
- Oak
- Oak-barrel fermentation; Grand Cru Cote des Blancs; extra-brut, low-intervention
- ABV
- 12.5%
- Price
- EUR 300 to 500 at retail
- Drinking window
- now to 15 from release
- First vintage
- 2009
Scores
- Vinous 94