Champagne Jacques Selosse Le Mesnil-sur-Oger Grand Cru Les Carelles NV Base 17, Disg. Jan. 24

Champagne Jacques Selosse Les Carelles is a blanc de blancs from a steep, south-facing site of fractured chalk in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger.

Le Mesnil is the grand cru of the Côte des Blancs most associated with rigour and longevity, and Les Carelles, acquired by the estate in 2002, is among its rockier corners. The chalk is so broken up and the clay so scarce that the vines drive their roots exceptionally deep, which is what Selosse credits for the wine's concentration. In his own description the wine is dry and structured, its palatability sharpened by the concentration that the southern exposure brings. It is consistently the raciest and chalkiest of the six lieu-dit wines. Vinification is identical across the set: very ripe fruit from low yields, natural fermentation and ageing in oak casks, long lees contact and next to no dosage, so that the site rather than the cellar does the talking. This bottling is based on 2017 and was disgorged in January 2024.

Drinking now but built for fifteen years and more. Serve at around 8°C with oysters, raw kingfish or grilled crayfish.

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