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Champagne Extra Brut Millésime 2009 75cl

AOC | Côte des Blancs | Champagne | France
CHF 1’513.40
Critics scores
97 By Robert Parker
97 By Robert Parker
95 By Vinous
95 By Vinous
Disgorged in January 2020, the 2009 Extra-Brut Premier Cru Millésime represents a new direction for Selosse's vintage bottling, as Guillaume Selosse wanted to produce this cuvée from all of the six villages in which the domaine's holdings are located. The resulting wine is spectacular, soaring from the glass with a deep and complex bouquet of mandarin orange, honeycomb, ripe peaches, freshly baked bread, almond paste and dried apricots. Full-bodied, deep and complete, it's elegantly muscular and multidimensional, with extraordinary mid-palate amplitude, ripe but lively acids and a long, intensely sapid finish.
Producer
Champagne Jacques Selosse
One of the true icons in Champagne, the Jacques Selosse House of Champagne has taken the region by storm, surpassing past traditions with the force of brilliant new ideas and efforts. Established in 1949 by Jacques Selosse, his son Anselme, however, is the man responsible for Champagne’s most recent renascence. By the late 1970s, Anselme took over the Avize estate, following in his father’s reputation, Anselme has become one of the most fascinating vintners in the appellation. He is a unique, magnetic individual that takes a Burgundian approach to his wines. That includes low yielding vineyards, and organic viticulture to provide the purest, most intense fruits possible. His radical vinification processes utilize new and old oak to barrel-ferment each base wine separately. Harvested from 35 different plots, his 7.5-hectares stretch across most of the appellation, there are Chardonnay parcels in the Côte des Blancs — Avize, Cramant, Oger, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger — and a few Montagne de Reims plots, that are dedicated to growing Pinot Noir, as well as in Aÿ, Ambonnay and Mareuil-sur-Aÿ. This rather small producer consistently crafts some of the most compelling and original Champagnes in France.