Champagne Sélèque: The Range

Giving our wines their identity, our “terroir” guides our style and our wine-making choices. We seek optimum grape maturity by sampling the grapes on the vine.

We then use small vertical 4000 kg presses, enabling us to keep the juices from each plot separate. The juice ferments slowly in a variety of containers – steel vats, oak barrels and casks – which we select according to each wine’s potential.

Long ageing on fine lees gives the wines finesse and balance before the spring tasting. We then take the time to understand the new vintage before starting to work on combinations and creating new blends.

Cuvée Tradition

Presentation: First representative of the house style, the cuvee tradition is made from the 3 cepages and 7 villages of Champagne. (Pierry, Moussy, Epernay, Mardeuil, Dizy, Vertus et Boursault).
Blending: 50 % Chardonnay, 45 % of Pinot Meunier and 5 % of Pinot Noir, based on 2011 vintage, with 50 % of reserved wines, 20 % of this wines were aged in foudres and oak barrels.
Vinification: Alcoholic fermentation in stainless steel tanks (85 %) and oak barrels (15 %) with “stirring of the lees”. Malolactic fermentation realised. Wine not fined. Light filtration before bottling in April.
Aging on the lees: from 18 to 30 months.
Disgorging: 3 month before shipping, dosage around 8g/L.

Cuvée Rosé

Presentation: Blended Rosé, obtained by blending of our house red wine made from Pinot Noir in Pierry, lieu-dit “Les Tartières”. Blending : 45 % Chardonnay, 40 % of Pinot Meunier and 15 % of Pinot Noir that 12% is vinified as red wine, based on 2011 vintage, with 30 % of reserved wines, 15 % of this wines were aged in foudres and oak barrels.
Vinification: Alcoholic fermentation in stainless steel tanks (80 %) and oak barrels (20 %) with “stirring of the lees”. Malolactic fermentation realised. Wine not fined. Light filtration before bottling in April.
Aging on the lees: 18 to 30 months.
Disgorging: 3 month before shipping, dosage around 7g/L.
Bottles produced: 4500 bottles / year.

Cuvée Réserve – Extra Brut

Presentation: The Cuvée Réserve is made from a blend of parcels in our 3 vineyards in Premier Cru(Pierry, Dizy and Vertus), with a longer aging in our cellar.
Blending: 60 % Chardonnay, 30 % of Pinot Meunier and 10 % of Pinot Noir, based on 2009 vintage, with 40 % of reserved wines, 20 % of this wines were aged in foudres and oak barrels.
Vinification: Alcoholic fermentation in stainlesssteel tanks (80 %) and oak barrels (20 %) with “stirring of the lees”. Malolactic fermentation realised. Wine not fined. Light filtration before bottling in April.
Aging on the lees: 36 to 48 months.
Disgorging: 3 month before shipping, dosage around 4g/L.
Bottles produced: 4500 bottles / year.

Cuvée Or Blanc

Presentation: This cuvee is a blend of our best chardonnay’s vineyards in Pierry, Dizy and Vertus.
Average age of the vines: 45 years.
Blending: 100 % Chardonnay from harvest 2009.
Vinification: Alcoholic fermentation in stainlesssteel tanks (50 %) and oak barrels (50 %) of 228 and300 liters with “stirring of the lees”. Malolacticfermentation realised. Wine not fined. No filtration.Bottling in April.
Aging on the lees: 36 to 48 months.
Disgorging: 3 month before shipping, dosage around4g/L.
Bottles produced: 4000 bottles / year.

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