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Avize Champ Caïn Jacquesson 2008

  • Mineral
  • Gastronomic wine
  • Wine for the adventurous
  • Color: Sparkling
  • 12.50% 
  • 0.75L
  • Intensity
  • Low dosage

This Champagne is from single plots and is pure, elegant and finely acidulated. It offers a straight and chalky profile with beautiful floral and lemon aromas and hints of truffle. A fine example from this Champagne house.  More info

  • Quantity: 1 Bottle
  • Level: 1 into-neck
  • Label: 1 very slightly marked label
  • Origin: Private individual
  • Recoverable VAT: No
  • Remark: Disgorged in 2018
  • Country/Region: Champagne
  • Appellation/Wine: Champagne
  • Classification: Grand Cru
  • Producer/Owner: Jacquesson
  • More information....

Avize Champ Caïn Jacquesson serve at a temperature of 9°C. It will pair perfectly with the following dishes: Terrine de Saint-Jacques, Bar en croûte de sel, Homard grillé au sabayon de champagne.

  • Vintage score: 17/20
  • Lot presentation
    Avize Champ Caïn Jacquesson

    The wine

    Avize Champ Cain is a parcel-based cuvée from vineyards planted in 1962 at the bottom of the Avize hills, sited on chalk soils. On the nose, the wine delivers beautiful floral, lemony aromas with truffle notes. The palate reveals great delicacy and an emphatic salinity, a light woodiness and a crystalline finish. This great champagne can be enjoyed as an apéritif or as an accompaniment to refined seafood dishes, especially fish in sauce.

    Information about domain Jacquesson

    Jacquesson champagnes are a long established name and the house is one of the most reputed among connoisseurs. Claude Jacquesson founded the company in Dizy in 1798. From the very beginning its champagne was reputed to be the Emperor's favourite (Napoleon 1). This was also the house which patented the cork wire in 1844 and helped establish Maison Krug. A succession of owners ran Maison Jacquesson until 1974 when it was acquired by the Chiquet family. Today, Jean Chiquet's sons, Laurent and Jean-Hervé, run the company with panache. The vineyards are planted on around 30 hectares in Avize, Aÿ, Dizy and Hautvillers and complemented by regular and carefully selected supplies of bought-in grapes. Jacquesson champagnes have a strong personality (especially the single parcel cuvées) and stand out for their low sugar levels, intensity and distinction. This house has gradually become the standard bearer for high-quality champagne, expressing the illustrious potential of its terroirs with incredible fidelity, reducing dosage to a strict minimum and allowing its cuvées the time they need to mature before putting them on the market. Because of this, the wines (primarily vinified in wood and dosed at Extra-Brut level) always have a distinct and sometimes surprising character. Production has reduced considerably since the Chiquet family took over Maison Jacquesson. Every year, it gives its non-vintage Brut (BSA) a number - 738, 739 etc. This is a way to identify the style of each vintage and to encourage fans to age the wines. All Jacquesson cuvées age beautifully, whether late-disgorged or not. This sublime champagne house is one of our favourites in the region.

    Detailed characteristics

    • Quantity: 1 Bottle
    • Level: 1 into-neck
    • Label: 1 very slightly marked label
    • Remark: Disgorged in 2018
    • Origin: Private individual
    • Recoverable VAT: No
    • Original Wooden Case / Original Case: No
    • French customs seal: yes
    • Alcohol percentage: 12.50 %
    • Country/Region: Champagne
    • Appellation/Wine: Champagne
    • Classification: Grand Cru
    • Producer/Owner: Jacquesson
    • Vintage: 2008
    • Color: Sparkling
    • Service temperature:
    • Viticulture: Conventional 
    • Size (in ha): 28
    • Intensity: Low dosage
    • Dominant aroma: Mineral
    • Tasting occasion: Gastronomic wine
    • Grape variety: 100% Chardonnay
    Avize Champ Caïn Jacquesson
    Avize Champ Caïn Jacquesson

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    Avize Champ Caïn Jacquesson 2008

    iDealwine Price(1) corresponds to the hammer price and the buyer's premium charged by the auctioneer. (1)Bottle format