In 2008, Michel Fallon requested to purchase a small bit of his mentor Anselme Selosse’s Avize harvest; Anselme, the consummate teacher, agreed and let Michel make the wine in his cellar that year. Ozanne was born, taking its name from the ancient title of the village of Avize. He made scarcely 400 bottles that year, and has kept back a bit of each vintage since as a solera system, a perpetual reserve from which he will draw to provide about 40% of the next release’s bottled output; the remainder is from a single harvest.

Michel’s wife Brigitte is a winemaker in her own right, releasing her first wine with the “Avysia” Blanc de Blancs, made very much in the same style as her husband’s grand vin, the Ozanne. The grapes are largely the same source with some additional fruit purchased from their grower friends in Avize. The perpetual reserve for her wine has been building since 2014, and her first wine is largely based on the 2019 vintage with the reserve wine providing the nuanced depth and development.

Made from grapes grown in a plot of 900 square meters adjacent to Fallon’s home in the Grand Cru commune of Avize, as well as the Fallon’s and other growers’ reserve wine from the local cooperative.

Fermented in temperature-controlled tanks with malolactic fermentation. Aged four years on the lees. Based on the 2017 vintage with 42% solera reserve (2002-2014). 7g/L dosage.