2014 Jacquesson Avize Champ Cäin

As well as its outstanding 700-series wines, Champagne Jacquesson also produces tiny quantities of four single-vineyard wines. These Champagnes demonstrate an extraordinary vinosity and showcase our finest terroirs, expressing their typicity and an innate sense of place. These single-vineyard wines are not necessarily produced every year. Indeed, the quality of the vintage must allow the full expression of the character of each terroir. Given that the Cuvée 700 takes priority, they are only bottled if they cannot improve the quality of the base wine for the Cuvée 700. The Champ Cäin plot in the grand cru village of Avize is at the bottom of the slope and has a southerly aspect. Loamy and sandy clay soil with chalky gravel on Campanian bedrock. 12,000 Chardonnay vines were planted on this 1.3-hectare plot in 1962 and are pruned in the Chablis method. 

2014: Winter was wet and particularly mild. After a hot and dry spring, July and August were cool and very wet. A hot, dry and sunny September saved the vintage. The balance between alcohol and acidity was excellent, and the crop was relatively healthy, though some sorting was required upon picking. – Champagne Jacquesson

Harvested on 22 September 2014. 11% abv and 6.9 g/L acidity. 11,328 bottles and 406 magnums. Dosage: 0 g/L. Disgorged in January 2024