2005 millesime / Avize / Champagne / Anselme Selosse

2005 millesime / Avize / Champagne /  Anselme Selosse 

The Vintage 2018 has been for me a great start, I decide to have more time for my self.
So with a little sadness and great excitement I decided to finish work as a Restaurant manager and Wine director for a restaurant in Melbourne in the last 2 years. 
Working at IDES in Melbourne has been a great opportunity and learning process, however as always happening in the world of Hospitality there is always an end. 
So good news I can start again looking after my little tasting diary in this space, unknown for the majority of people. 

I have been drinking numerous great wines in the last years, and i would like to go back and write about them. 

Last week I was very fortunate to try the new vintage of Anselme Selosse 2005. 
Selosse is a man who changed the philosophy of Champagne in the region. 
With Lydia and Claude Bourguignon he began to revive his soils. He started with organic and later with biodynamic farming, but he couldn't find the harmony he was looking so he didn't pursue either. 
A true believer of Terroir, for Anselme a terroir has three core elements 

soil 
#winemaking
#harmony

Soil is a complete micro-cosmos "Aerobic top soil and Anaerobic subsoil" every tiny part in this two division between the soils plays a role. 

Winemaking is like an art collector; needs to put together lots of pieces of art to create an exhibition, so Selosse put together all the pieces the land gives to him into a cuvee. 

Harmony is making sure through the vineyard and the winery every step contains a balance and therefore a harmony. 

2005 blanc de blanc
is opulent, elegant, zesty, oxidative great tension, an abundance of citrus zest fruit orange and grapefruit, stewed apple and pear juice, toasted cashew nuts, long saline finish. 
through the time we were drinking this millesime it was a continuous evolving stage....

#mineralwine
#selosse 
#avize
#champagne 





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Best

Raf 

Drinking and listening sculpture sound: Abruzzo & Melbourne
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