NV Jacquesson Cuvée No. 733 Dégorgement Tardif

Jacquesson

France / Champagne / Jacquesson

This is Jacquesson's late-disgorged release of its Cuvée No 733. This Cuvée No 733, based on the 2005 vintage, succeeds Cuvée No 732 which was based on the 2004 vintage. This Dégorgement Tardif wine was disgorged in September 2013 and given a dosage of 2.5g/L.
There were no dramas with the weather in 2005. Winter was cold and dry, spring mild and tranquil, July a bit wetter than optimal so that the heat and humidity experienced between 15 August and 15 September favoured the development of botrytis. Happily, harvest took place in a second half of September that was blessed with sunny weather and the final stages of ripening took place under very good weather conditions. As so often happens, our rigorous viticulture allowed us to perform better than the potential of the vintage might have suggested and we were very satisfied with the quality of our musts which were well balanced with 10.5 degrees potential alcohol and about 7 gm/l acidity.
The wines were vinified, as usual, in large oak casks on their lees, with weekly bâtonnage and with absolutely no filtration. The Chardonnays were very aromatic and balanced with good potential for ageing, the Pinot Noirs were fine and vinous while the Pinot Meuniers were fruity but less complex. The blend is composed of 52% Chardonnay, 24% Pinot Noir and 24% Pinot Meunier and the wines from the 2005 harvest were completed with reserve wines from 2004 (16%) and 2001 (6%).

September, 2014

Campbell Mattinson

The Wine Front

95 points

Remarkable wine. Power from the start and then all the way through the finish. Wheat, toast, grapefruit, crunchy brown and yellow apples, rose, pips. Brilliant. Muscular but rich, even flamboyant. Kills it. Nails it. However you want to say it.

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About Jacquesson

Jacquesson has an impressive history. It was founded in 1798 in Châlons by Memmie Jacquesson, son of a wine trader. The house rapidly rose to fame, aided by the fact that Napoleon was a fan. However, everything that we today value about Jacquesson began in 1974 when Côte des Blancs winegrower Jean Chiquet acquired the brand and vineyards and moved the domicile of the house to Dizy. His sons Jean-Hervé and Laurent Chiquet are the present custodians of the Jacquesson trading house, which manages to cover almost 90% of its grape requirement from its own vineyards. These are located in the Grands Crus Aÿ, Avize and Oiry, and in the Premiers Crus Hautvillers, Dizy and Mareuil-sur-Aÿ. Additional grapes are only bought from growers who follow exactly the same methods as the Chiquets. The fruit is pressed by Jacquesson itself in its four presses, three of which are located in Dizy and one in Avize.


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Laurent and Jean-Hervé Chiquet see themselves primarily as winegrowers who cultivate the land and do everything with the aim of obtaining the best possible grapes. And from there, the brothers have been ready to break with convention in order to deliver the best possible wine every time - hence the decision to introduce the 7-series non-vintage wines instead of the traditional house NV. In his 2018 article entitled Champagne’s Top Five Movers & Shakers, Tyson Stelzer summed up the approach pretty well: "It’s been 40 years since Jean-Hervé and Laurent Chiquet’s family purchased Jacquesson, 30 years since the brothers took control, 20 years since they turned champagne’s non-vintage concept on it head with their controversial ‘700 series’ cuvée, and ten years since they pulled their most cunning stunt of all by slashing production to ramp up quality. And ramp up it has."