Winery Jacques Selosse - Lieux-dits La Cote Faron Extra Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ'

Winery Jacques Selosse Lieux-dits La Cote Faron Extra Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ'

4.7
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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 Lieux-dits La Cote Faron Extra Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' of Winery Jacques Selosse is a sparkling wine from the region of Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' in Champagne.
This wine is composed of 100% of the grape variety Pinot Nero.
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 Lieux-dits La Cote Faron Extra Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' of the Winery Jacques Selosse is in the top 20 of wines of France and in the top 10 of wines of Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ'.

Taste structure of the Lieux-dits La Cote Faron Extra Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' from the Winery Jacques Selosse

Light
Bold
Soft
Acidic
Gentle
Fizzy

In the mouth the Lieux-dits La Cote Faron Extra Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' 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, caramel

Wine with microbio taste

cream, cheese

Wine with earth taste

smoke, stone

Wine with spices taste

mint

Wine with floral taste

dried flowers, acacia

On the nose the Lieux-dits La Cote Faron Extra Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' of Winery Jacques Selosse in the region of Champagne often reveals types of flavors of cream, honey or floral and sometimes also flavors of black fruit, red fruit or citrus fruit.

Details and technical informations about Winery Jacques Selosse's Lieux-dits La Cote Faron Extra Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ'.

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

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

Last vintages of this wine

Lieux-dits La Cote Faron Extra Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' - N.V.
In the top 10 of of Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' wines
Average rating: 4.7 1 1 1 1 0.5
Lieux-dits La Cote Faron Extra Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' - 2015
In the top 10 of of Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' wines
Average rating: 4.5 1 1 1 1 0.5

The best vintages of Lieux-dits La Cote Faron Extra Brut Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' from Winery Jacques Selosse are N.V., 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 3 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' in the region of Champagne

The Winery Jacques Selosse is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 16 wines for sale in the of Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Champagne
In the top 25 of of France wines
In the top 10 of of Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' wines
In the top 10 of sparkling wines
In the top 150 wines of the world

The wine region of Champagne Grand Cru 'A&yuml'

The wine region du Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' is located in the region of Champagne Grand Cru in Champagne in France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Jacques Selosse or the Domaine Henri Giraud produce mainly wines sparkling and natural sweet. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' are Pinot noir, Chardonnay and Pinot blanc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Champagne Grand Cru 'Aÿ' often reveals types of flavors of cream, roasted almonds or chestnut and sometimes also flavors of toasted nuts, biscuits or nectarine.


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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