Winery Jacques Selosse - Initial Blanc de Blancs Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize'

Winery Jacques SelosseInitial Blanc de Blancs Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize'

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(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters consider this wine to be one of the best in the world.
The Initial Blanc de Blancs Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' of Winery Jacques Selosse is a sparkling wine from the region of Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' of Champagne.
This wine is composed of 100% of the grape variety Chardonnay.
In the mouth this sparkling wine is a powerful with a nice vivacity and a fine and pleasant bubble.
This wine generally goes well with pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish.
The Initial Blanc de Blancs Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' of the Winery Jacques Selosse is in the top 90 of wines of France and in the top 30 of wines of Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize'.

Taste structure of the Initial Blanc de Blancs Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' from the Winery Jacques Selosse

Light
Bold
Soft
Acidic
Gentle
Fizzy

In the mouth the Initial Blanc de Blancs Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' of Winery Jacques Selosse in the region of Champagne is a powerful with a nice vivacity and a fine and pleasant bubble.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

Wine with oak taste

oak, butter

Wine with earth taste

honey, stone

Wine with microbio taste

cream, yeast

Wine with vegetal taste

straw, grass

Wine with spices taste

cinnamon, gingerbread

Wine with floral taste

acacia, honeysuckle

On the nose the Initial Blanc de Blancs Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' of Winery Jacques Selosse in the region of Champagne often reveals types of flavors of butterscotch, dried apricot or non oak and sometimes also flavors of toasted almonds, bruised apple or banana.

Details and technical informations about Winery Jacques Selosse's Initial Blanc de Blancs Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize'.

Winemaker
Jacques Selosse
Grape varieties
Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
Allergens
Contains sulfites

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

Last vintages of this wine

Initial Blanc de Blancs Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' - N.V.
In the top 30 of of Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' wines
Average rating: 4.511110.5
Initial Blanc de Blancs Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' - 2017
In the top 30 of of Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' wines
Average rating: 4.411110
Initial Blanc de Blancs Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' - 2016
In the top 30 of of Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' wines
Average rating: 4.611110.5
Initial Blanc de Blancs Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' - 2015
In the top 30 of of Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' wines
Average rating: 4.611110.5
Initial Blanc de Blancs Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' - 2014
In the top 30 of of Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' wines
Average rating: 4.611110.5
Initial Blanc de Blancs Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' - 2013
In the top 30 of of Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' wines
Average rating: 4.611110.5
Initial Blanc de Blancs Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' - 2012
In the top 30 of of Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' wines
Average rating: 4.611110.5

The best vintages of Initial Blanc de Blancs Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' from Winery Jacques Selosse are 1999, 1988, 2003, 2016 and 2015.

Informations about the Winery Jacques Selosse

The winery offers 17 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 4.6.
It is in the top 10 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' in the region of Champagne

The Winery Jacques Selosse is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 17 wines for sale in the of Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Champagne
In the top 100 of of France wines
In the top 35 of of Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' wines
In the top 35 of sparkling wines
In the top 550 wines of the world

The wine region of Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize'

The wine region of Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' is located in the region of Champagne Grand Cru of Champagne of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Jacques Selosse or the Domaine Jacques Selosse produce mainly wines sparkling. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' are Chardonnay, Pinot noir and Pinot blanc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Champagne Grand Cru 'Avize' often reveals types of flavors of butterscotch, orange zest or pastry and sometimes also flavors of acacia, yellow apple or biscuits.


The wine region of Champagne

Champagne is the name of the world's most famous Sparkling wine, the appellation under which it is sold and the French wine region from which it comes. Although it has been used to refer to sparkling wines around the world - a point of controversy and legal wrangling in recent decades - Champagne is a legally controlled and restricted name. See the labels of Champagne wines. The fame and success of Champagne is, of course, the product of many Complex factors.

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