Champagne Jacques Selosse Ay La Côte Faron, Extra-Brut Grand Cru, disgorged 2019 Bottle (75cl)
The Champagne Jacques Selosse La Côte Faron is a non-vintaged Extra-Brut Grand Cru from Aÿ, in Champagne, disgorged in 2019. This parcel-specific cuvée comes from the lieu-dit La Côte Faron and is crafted exclusively from Pinot Noir. It belongs to the Lieux-Dits collection of the Jacques Selosse estate, dedicated to the expression of identified parcels across various Champagne villages. A white sparkling reference focused on the origin of Aÿ and the identity of its Grand Cru terroir.
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
- Jacques Selosse
- Cuvée
- La Cote Faron
- Millésime
- Non Vintage
Jacques Selosse
The Jacques Selosse estate is a family-run Champagne producer based in Avize, on the Côte des Blancs. Its 8.3-hectare vineyard is spread across Avize, Cramant, Oger, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, Aÿ, Mareuil-sur-Aÿ and Ambonnay. Guillaume Selosse now runs the estate founded by his grandfather Jacques in 1949.
- Owner
- Guillaume Selosse
- Maître de chais
- Guillaume Selosse
- Surface (ha)
- 8.30 ha
- Production (average bottles per vintage)
- environ 57 000 bouteilles/an
Histoire du domaine
Jacques Selosse moved to Avize in 1947, although he did not come from a family of winegrowers. He founded the estate with his wife in 1949, starting with just a few plots of vines. During his early years, he mainly sold his grapes to wine merchants. Experiments in winemaking with a view to producing his own champagne began in 1959. The estate’s first winemaking took place in 1964, yielding 2,500 bottles. Anselme Selosse joined the estate in 1974 after training in Beaune, and took over its management in 1980. Under his leadership, the estate developed a viticultural approach based first on organic farming from 1990, then biodynamics from 1996, and finally an approach inspired by permaculture from 2002. He also introduced the practice of vinifying and maturing wine from individual plots in barrels. Guillaume Selosse joined his father at the estate in 2012 and has been in charge since 2018. The vineyard now covers 8.3 hectares, spread across 54 plots, mainly classified as grands crus.
La Cote Faron
La Côte Faron is a single-vineyard champagne from Aÿ made exclusively from Pinot Noir. This extra-brut blanc de noirs belongs to Jacques Selosse's collection of six Lieux-Dits and aims to specifically express this terroir.
- Origin of the cuvée name
- The cuvée is named after the lieu-dit "La Côte Faron" in Aÿ, from which it originates.
- Cuvée creation year
- 2010
- Style of the cuvée
- A blanc de noirs that is generally vinous, ample, and structured, expressing the maturity of Aÿ Pinot Noir. Its profile combines depth, power, and chalky relief in the estate's low-dosage style.
- Position within the range
- One of the six single-vineyard cuvées in the Lieux-Dits collection and the expression of Aÿ Pinot Noir within the range.
Histoire de la cuvée
The plot of La Côte Faron was originally the source of Contraste, a blanc de noirs produced by Anselme Selosse since the 1990s. The wine was named La Côte Faron when the Lieux-Dits collection was created, with a first bottling under this name documented in 2010.
