Jacques Selosse Brut Rose 2020 750mL

A 2020-dated bottle of Jacques Selosse Brut Rosé, the Avize domaine's rare pink Champagne. Chardonnay forms most of the wine, and a dash of still Pinot Noir from grand cru Ambonnay gives the colour.

About This Champagne

The Chardonnay base is a blend of two harvests, fermented with native yeasts in Burgundy barrels and kept on its lees with regular stirring. Roughly 6% Pinot Noir from Ambonnay, made as a still red, is blended in for colour. The wine then ages for several years in bottle before disgorgement, with a low Brut dosage.

Tasting Profile

• Nose: Raspberry, redcurrant and bergamot, with a touch of cinnamon, dried herbs and lightly oxidative pastry notes.
• Palate: Firm and textured, carrying red fruit and citrus over a chalky backbone, with more depth than colour suggests.
• Finish: Dry and lingering, with a savoury, faintly salty close.

Serving & Food

Open 20 to 30 minutes before serving and pour at around 12°C into white Burgundy glasses. Good with char siu, tuna tataki or roast guinea fowl with mushrooms.

How to Enjoy

Selosse drinkers adding the rosé to their cellar, or a serious dinner Champagne for Chinese roast meats.

Product Details

About the Maison

The Selosse holding is small: about 8.3 hectares split into 54 parcels, nearly all of them grand cru. Chardonnay covers most of it, mainly in Avize with plots in Cramant, Oger and Le Mesnil-sur-Oger. Just under a hectare of Pinot Noir is spread across Aÿ, Mareuil-sur-Aÿ and Ambonnay.

The vines are old. Some date back to 1922, and the average is more than 55 years. Farming follows no set school. The family tried organics and then biodynamics in the 1990s, then left both behind to follow their own observations, taking cues from the Japanese farmer-philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka. The guiding idea is to step in as little as possible.