Introduction

Spent a wonderful September morning at Champagne Jacquesson, one of the best, (if not the very best) negociants in Champagne. We were guided for almost three hours by Monsieur Jean-Hervé Chiquet who together with his brother Laurent owns the house and makes the wine. He kindly demonstrated their methods in the vineyards as well as in the cellar and concluded our visit with a tasting. We also got an excellent insight to the philosophy of the house. Even though Jacquesson is a negociant (NM), they grow almost all of their grapes by themselves, and only buy from good friends and from the same villages they farm themselves. Nowadays they don't make a typical NV at all, contrary to almost every other producer in the region. Instead, they aim to make the best possible wine every year, ditching the idea of never-changing "house-style". Thus, the 700-series cuvée is the only blended(between vineyards) wine of the house and its base vintage can be noted of the annually growing number (735 = 2007). In addition to the 700-series cuvée, they also make four single-vineyard, single-variety vintage wines. However, they do not make them every year, but only when the the vineyard is able to produce a great wine with an unique character and its wine is not needed elsewhere in the 700-series blend. These unique wines are of absolute top quality and compare favorably to any prestige cuvees of the bigger houses.

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