Champagne Jean-Marc Sélèque - Soliste Meunier Extra Brut 2018 Bouteille (75cl)
The 2018 Champagne Jean-Marc Sélèque Soliste Meunier Extra Brut is an effervescent white champagne classified as a Champagne Premier Cru, crafted by Jean-Marc Sélèque. This cuvée is composed of 100% Pinot Meunier. Rated 93/100 by James Suckling, it combines notes of white strawberry, pear, pastry, and chocolate orange with a toasted framework, carried by fine bubbles. The creamy finish and balance between fruit and pastry flavors invite you to enjoy it right away.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- Sparkling White
- Pays
- France
- Région
- Champagne
- Producteur / Domaine
- Jean-Marc Sélèque
- Cuvée
- Soliste Meunier
- Millésime
- 2018
Jean-Marc Sélèque
Located in Pierry, in the Coteaux Sud d’Épernay, Domaine J-M Sélèque farms 10 hectares spread across 48 plots and seven communes. Jean-Marc Sélèque, the third generation of the family, has been leading the winemaking since 2008 with a plot-by-plot approach focused on soil life, controlled yields, and the precise expression of terroirs. The range notably includes the Solessence, Quintette, Soliste, and Partition cuvées.
- Owner
- Famille Sélèque
- Maître de chais
- Jean-Marc Sélèque
- Surface (ha)
- 10.00 ha
Histoire du domaine
The family history began with Henri Sélèque, who arrived in France from Poland in 1925. Settling with his wife Françoise Bagnost on a farm in Boursault, he planted vines in Moussy and Pierry in the 1960s, then produced and marketed his first bottles in 1969 with the help of his father-in-law Jean Bagnost, who was then president of the Pierry cooperative. Their son Richard joined the estate in 1974 after training in oenology. He modernized winemaking and aging practices, equipping the property with a press, vats, barrels, and its own bottling and disgorging line, while expanding the family vineyard toward Dizy, Mardeuil, and Vertus. After viticultural and oenological studies and experiences in Maison Chandon vineyards, particularly in the New World, Jean-Marc Sélèque returned to the estate in 2008 and took charge of winemaking. He gradually reoriented the viticulture toward a more precise expression of plots and natural balances. In 2015, Jean-Marc and his wife Oriane had a new winery built in Pierry.
Soliste Meunier
Soliste Meunier is a single-plot cuvée from the lieu-dit Les Gouttes d’Or in Pierry Premier Cru. Crafted exclusively from old massal selections of Meunier, it aims for a precise expression of the grape variety and this clay-limestone terroir marked by flint calcites. It belongs to the Soliste range, based on the combination of a Pierry terroir and a single grape variety.
- Origin of the cuvée name
- The name "Soliste" refers to the musical world dear to the Sélèque family: a single plot and a single grape variety perform a score unique to the terroir.
- Cuvée creation year
- 2012
- Style of the cuvée
- Vinous and precise extra-brut Champagne, combining ripe, expressive fruit with a taut, chalky, and saline structure, with oak aging and prolonged aging on the lees.
- Position within the range
- Terroir cuvée from the Soliste range, positioned above Solessence and before the high-end blended cuvée Partition.
Histoire de la cuvée
The 2012 vintage represents the first documented release found. The cuvée has since been regularly produced under the name Soliste Meunier, with Les Gouttes d’Or as its defining plot.
