Champagne Jacques Selosse VO, Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs, disgorged 2018
The Champagne Jacques Selosse V.O., for Version Originale, is a non-vintage Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Champagne, disgorged in 2018. Produced by Jacques Selosse in Champagne, it is crafted exclusively from Chardonnay. This white sparkling cuvée combines the identity of a Blanc de Blancs with the Champagne Grand Cru designation.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Packaging
- Loose
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- Sparkling White
- Pays
- France
- Région
- Champagne
- Producteur / Domaine
- Jacques Selosse
- Cuvée
- V.O.
- Millésime
- Non Vintage
Cépage et assemblage
- Grape Variety
- 100% Chardonnay
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.
V.O.
V.O. is a Blanc de Blancs champagne made from Chardonnay originating from the upper slopes of Avize, Cramant, and Oger. The cuvée blends several years and differs from Initial by the higher origin of its grapes and by zero or very low dosage. It seeks a particularly chalky, taut, and dry expression of the Côte des Blancs.
- Origin of the cuvée name
- V.O. stands for "Version Originale" (Original Version). The name refers to the chalk of the upper slopes, considered by Anselme Selosse to be the original bedrock from which the soils lower down are derived.
- Style of the cuvée
- Dry, taut, and vinous style, marked by a strong chalky and saline expression, with greater austerity and verticality than Initial.
- Position within the range
- Along with Initial, one of the fundamental blending cuvées in the range, focused on the upper slopes and tension.
Histoire de la cuvée
Version Originale is historically presented as one of the two blending cuvées forming the foundation of the Jacques Selosse range, alongside Initial. It reflects Anselme Selosse's choice to bring together multiple harvests to prioritize the expression of the upper slopes rather than that of an isolated vintage.
