Antoine Chevalier’s grandfather and father began planting Champagne vines in 1974 but he is the first of the family to start making and bottling wine. This is organically farmed Chardonnay from the lieu-dit Les Bas du Mont... Read More
Cuvee “Intense,” indeed! Unmistakably Extra Brut, this triumvirate blend of Pinot Meunier, PInot Noir, and Chardonnay opens effusively with fresh, heady floral and white peach aromas that unravel in layers to reveal... Read More
Cuvee “Intense,” indeed! Unmistakably Extra Brut, this triumvirate blend of Pinot Meunier, PInot Noir, and Chardonnay opens effusively with fresh, heady floral and white peach aromas that unravel in layers to reveal... Read More
Lower ABV Estate-grown Prosecco is far from the norm. This family-owned, certified-sustainable estate-bottler in the very best subzone of the region makes one of the most delicious savory Proseccos we’ve ever tasted. Aromas... Read More
Christian Bellei is, as Vinous said recently, one of the true Lambrusco di Sorbara masters. A 4th generation Lambrusco maker, Bellei continues his father's innovation of making Lambrusco in the Champagne method - with the... Read More
Lower ABV From the winery that created Rose Lambrusco as a category, this is the finest expression of super lightly-pressed, perfectly rip, Lambrusco di Sorbo. The grapes come from the winery's best plots near the Secchia... Read More
A luxury Champagne on every dimension other than price – and always on of our best-selling Champagnes for its compelling blend of delicious quality and remarkably low price. The 59 wine growers who make up this Aube-based... Read More
For the past six years, this has been a terrific Brut Champagne at a crazy good price. It comes from a co-op founded in 1959 to help grape growers in Aube, the southern part of Champagne, get a little better deal from the big... Read More
This small cooperative winery in the heart of Champagne has struck gold with this cuvee- and yellow label gold at that. Because the Charles Clement Brut Tradition is the kind of wine that will thrill anyone who loves... Read More
Organic/Bio
An explosively good Champagne. Sorry, but had to say it! And it’s not wrong to describe this 90/10 Chardonnay/Pinot Noir from the best grapes Gael and Baptiste Dekeyne grow in the Cote de Sezanne. The base wine... Read More
Organic/Bio This small and young house in the Cotes de Sezane is doing everything right from organic farming to meticulous winemaking and only bottling single vintage, single vineyard, wines. This is 90% Chardonnay and 10% Pinot... Read More
Lower ABV Same wine, new label/name. A delightfully aromatic wine, with loads of fresh fruit flavors bursting from the glass. It is sweet, but beautifully balanced by the wine's effervescence and acidity. Being frizzante,... Read More
Lower ABV Same wine, new label/name. Moscato d’Asti is sweet, but don’t get trapped into thinking that means “just” sweet or “just” for dessert! This fine value delivers oodles of fresh and... Read More
This Loire Valley blend of 50% Chenin Blanc, 25% Chardonnay and 25% Pinot Noir with around a year on the lees is a screaming value in deliciously drinkable fizz. Aromas and flavors of golden apple, lemon, brioche and just a hint... Read More
Champagne’s benchmark is, as Vinous says in the 98 point review, “Stunning.” They continue, “What a wine! Lemon confit, marzipan, white flowers and chalk soar out of the glass. Over the last year, the 2017... Read More
Organic/Bio The “Méandre” here is a kink in the Marne River and frame’s Dremont-Marroy’s vineyards before flowing out of Champagne entirely. It’s already unusual to be making really good Champagne... Read More
Organic/Bio Grapes from this far west in the Marne tend to end up in mass-produced NV blends, but since their first release in 2020, the brother/sister team of Jean-Rémi and Melanie Drémont are proving that really... Read More
Mexican Cava. Really delicious, toasty and dry Mexican Cava at that! The Mexican part is from the vineyards and winery in Queretaro, North-Central Mexico. The Cava part from the blend - 50% Macabeo, 40% Xarel-lo and just 10% non-traditional... Read More
The label tells the story behind this one-time ever wine. In 2021, frost devastated the Mousse family’s vineyards. Facing an entire lost village, the family’s friends – top growers from across the region –... Read More
This delicious frizzante wine is a rare version of red Malvasia, made with a touch of sweetness and a light, frothy, sparkle. As The Washington Post’s Dave McIntyre said about the 2011, “This delightful little frizzante... Read More
A completely delicious "drinker's Champagne" with lots of time on the lees to develop toastiness and creaminess of texture. We love how the brioche notes linger here.
Paul creates this wine to showcase the terroir of the 1er Cru vineyards of Vertus. Wines from here can bring forward more fruit and body than in some parts of the Cote de Blancs, and that’s certainly the case here in a generous... Read More
We think the March, 2025, Vinous review of this 100% Pinot Noir gets it mostly right: “The NV Brut Blanc de Noirs Premier Cru sports the merest touch of pink and the perfume of tart red and green apples. A trace of reductive... Read More
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