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  • Producer ranking ?

    22
  • Decanting time

    10min
  • When to drink

    now to 2025
  • Food Pairing

    scampi and caviar toasts

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The Story

Blend: 100% Chardonnay from three successive vintages from three Grand Cru villages – Avize (mostly), Cramant and Oger.

Vineyard exposures: On higher slopes (15+% gradient]

Soil: Shallow clayey top soil on a chalky bedrock

Vinification: 6-7 years on lees

Dosage: 0-1.3 grams 

The NV Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru V.O. (Version Originale) is a massive wine boasting superb concentration and a level of textural richness that is unprecedented in Champagne. Here the fruit coats every inch of the palate in a stunning, virtuosic expression of ripe fruit. Smoke, minerals and incense add a visceral, exotic dimension to the wine that is impossible to resist. Version Originale is Chardonnay from Avize, Cramant and Oger, vintages 2002, 2001 and 2000. In a word: awesome Disgorged: November 5, 2008. Anticipated maturity: 2009-2019. – Antonio Galloni, Wine Advocate 95p

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Wine Information

The Selosse range includes: 
Initial - a blend of three vintages of Chardonnay grapes, aged for at least 2 years before disgorgement in a Brut style.  Version Originale is also a blend of three vintages of Chardonnay, but aged longer in bottle (42 months) before disgorgment and has very little dosage (Extra Brut) style.

Millésime - a single vintage Blanc de Blancs from the grapes of two vineyards in Avize, Le Mont de Cramant and Les Chantereines. Substance is a Blanc de Blancs from a single vineyard in Avize. This Champagne is made in a unique solera system with the base grapes for this wine coming from the 1987 vintage, the blend is topped up with more recent vintages each year.

Contraste is a Blanc de Noirs, made from Pinot Noir grapes,  from a single vineyard (La Côte Faron in the village of Aÿ), also made in a solera style with the base grapes from the 1994 vintage. Exquiseis a Demi-Sec Blanc de Blancs champagne, with around 24g/l of dosage.

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Latest Pro-tasting notes

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Tasting note

color

Light and Clear

ending

Long, Smooth and Gentle

flavors

Toasty, Honey and Buttery

taste

Average in Acidity and Sharp

Verdict

Fine and Excellent

Written Notes

Detta är Anselmes stora multi-vintage cuvée som lagras minst 42 månader före degorgering och buteljeras med liten eller ingen dosage. För att göra en bra champagne utan dosage krävs det extremt högkvalitativa druvor, just för att man inte ska/bör dölja små skönhetsfel med insmickrande sötma. Det smakar mer om druvmaterialet; en liksom rå och naken champagne! Druvsammansättning (Cépage): tre efter varandra följande årgångar av chardonnay från Avize, Cramant & Oger. Lagring på sin jästfällning: >4-5 år före dégorgering. Dosage: ~1.5 g/l. Produktion: Endast 3000 flaskor från branterna. Pris: ca 140 US$ dollars. Richard Juhlin Poäng: 92(94). Tastinnote; Kraftfull näsa, av rostade nötter. Näsan var rik, omissigenkännligt Selosse - mandeltoner, blommigt (krokus och pelargon) oxidativa drag. Här fanns hårdhet pga syran, som Anselme säger kommer att balanseras av dosagen när den dégorgeras. Han är inte champagnemakare som är mycket för att maskera terroiren med dosage. De flesta av hans viner har docken liten dosage kring 1-2 gram. Smaken är lika intensiv, en smak där eken fortfarande har en viktig plats med aromer av rostat bröd (brioche). Bakom denna rostade ek, upplever man en lång komplex eftersmak. Vinet verkar också mer intressant efter en lång dekantering (vilket jag gärna utför med alla champagner som varit i närhet av ny ek) eftersom vinet är ytterst komplext. Efter ca halvtimmen visar den en uppsjö av nya aromer, anmärkningsvärt roligt och njutbart!
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Origin

Avize, Champagne

Other wines from this producer

Au Dessus du Gros Mont Millésime

Contraste

Exquise

Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut

Le Bout du Clos

Le Chemin de Châlons Grand Cru Cramant

Le Côte Faron Grand Cru Aÿ

Les Carelles Grand Cru Le Mesnil

Les Chantereines Grand Cru Avize

Millésimé

Ratafia 'Il Etait Une Fois'

Rosé

Sous Le Mont Grand Cru Mareuil-sur-Aÿ

Substance

Version Initial

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