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Sunday, December 12, 2021

2009 Jacquesson Extra Brut Avize-Champ Caïn

 Beautifully seductive nose and a bit more fruit forward enticement compared to the 2009 Vauzelle Terme. 

Paired deliciously with mussels in a delicious broth and whole grilled Branzino...

Superb wine....Bravo!

100% Chardonnay from grand cru vineyards in Avize (Côte des Blancs)...


Jacquesson is one of Champagne’s most venerable houses, not only predating Krug, but giving birth to it, when in 1843 Johann-Joseph Krug left Jacquesson to form his own house. But despite more than 200 years of history, Jacquesson has become a revolutionary among Champagne’s established houses, under the leadership of brothers Laurent and Jean-Hervé Chiquet, who took over from their father in the 1980’s. Since then, the house has adopted a herbicide-free, terroir-based philosophy. It also retired, after 150 years, its non-vintage blend and replaced it with a groundbreaking single-vintage-based cuvée, which changes yearly. And next came its terroir-based cuvées, an unprecedented move for a traditional house.


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