Champagne Jacques Selosse Rosé NV Base 17, Disg. Nov. 23

Champagne Jacques Selosse Rosé is built on Avize Chardonnay from the slopes, coloured with a small addition of still Pinot Noir.

Most rosé Champagne is made either by bleeding off juice from red grapes or by blending in a larger proportion of still red wine; the Selosse version keeps Chardonnay firmly in charge and adds only a token of Pinot. This edition blends two successive vintages, 2017 at 70 per cent and 2016 at 30, with the red wine making up 3 per cent of the total. That red came from Nicolas Maillart this year because yields of Francis Egly's Ambonnay Pinot Noir were too low to supply it. The wine spends a minimum of five years on lees and carries a dosage of between 1 and 5 g/L depending on the year; this release was dosed at less than 1.5 g/L and disgorged in November 2023. It sets the Chardonnay's texture and lees character against the brightness the Pinot brings.

Drinking well now and capable of eight to ten years. Serve at around 8°C with salmon, duck or a bowl of summer berries.

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